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Poems (Scudder)/Esther

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4532460Poems — EstherAntoinette Quinby Scudder

ESTHER
"And if I perish, I perish"

Her ear
A monstrous pearl
Adorned, and rubies clasped
Her throat—Ahasuerus, or
King Death?