“Guess now who holds thee?"—"Death," I said. But there
The silver answer rang—"Not Death, but Love.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese
No. I
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
“Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.”
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, book The Yearling
Source: The Yearling
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