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Help me to find this poem, for a 103 year old lady

 
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budmouth



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:20 am    Post subject: Help me to find this poem, for a 103 year old lady Reply with quote

I need to find the poem beginning with, or containing the line 'Why dreadeth (or dreadest) thou death'. Can anyone help, please?
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archy



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 12:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Though it doesn't contain the exact phrase you quote, I wonder if the lady is perhaps remembering John Donne's Death, Be Not Proud.

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/sonnet10.php
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thankyou - I'll show it to her!
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