The Death-Bed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“Nothing would give up life:
Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.”
"Root Cellar," ll. 10-11
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
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