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COUNTING THE GRAVES.
"I did not know,—I who had light and breath:
Something to touch, to look at, if no more.
Fair earth to live in, who believes in death,
Till, dumb and blind, he lies at one's own door?

. . . "I did not know—I may have heard or read—
Of more; but should I search the wide grass through,
Lift every flower and every thorn," she said,
"From every grave—oh, I should see but two!"