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the afterlife

Heaven - by John M. Caie

{ Poem }

A croon, a harp, a bonnie sang,
/ Wi’ naething tae dee but tak’ wir ease,
/ An’ still-an’-on we’re loath tae gyang –…

Consolation - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Though he that ever kind and true
/ Kept stoutly step by step with you
/ Your whole long gusty lifetime through,
/ Be gone awhile…

The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652 - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

I
/
/ This is the myth we chose to do without;
/ and surely the painter imagined the garden he shows
/ as…

Afterlife - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

When we are gone
/ our lives will continue without us
/
/ – or so we believe and,
/ at times, we have tried to imagine
/
/ the…

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