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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Cora Fabbri (1871–1892)
The Web
O
Filmy and fine and fair!
A cloud of dewdrops blown
From rose-hearts overgrown—
Transfixed upon the bosom of the air.
That some rude hand has torn!
Each broken, lifeless thread
Hangs downward, gray and dead,
Caught on the sharp edge of a red-rose thorn.
Woven ’mid stars above,
Shattered on earth one day!
Mine lieth dead and gray,
Caught on the sharp edge of the Thorn of Love.