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Part of Here Lies a Prisoner, typed manuscripts, undated

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HERE

LIES A

Leave him: he's quiet enough:

PRISONER.

and what matter

out of his b ody or in, you can scatter

The f'rozen
Quieter

now

breath

wealthof
[struck
hi s through]
silenced soul, of his outraged soul to the winds

than he used to be, but listening

still to the magpie

that rave:

chatter

over his grave.

CHARLOTTE MEW.

HERE

LIES A PRISONER.

Leave him: he 1 s quiet enough: and what matter
out of his body or in, you can scatter
( \

breath

The frozen wealth [struck
of histhrough]
silenced soul, of his outraged soul to the winds that rave:
Quieter now than he used to be, but listening still to the magpie chatter
over his grave.

CHARLOTTE MEW.

Charlbtte Mew,
9 Gordon
Street,
Gordon Square,
London, W.
.c. l .
I

I

.

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