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Purgation
You lived
And your body
Clothed the flames of earth.
Now that the fires have burned away
And left your body cold,
I tremble as I stand
Before the chiseled marble
Of your dust-freed soul.
Written by Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981)
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