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The Drowned Children by Louise Gluck - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry Edit Report Content Ignore User Add to New List Add to list Louise Gluck Follow The Drowned Children You see, they have no judgment. So it is natural that they should drown, first the ice taking them in and then, all winter, their wool scarves floating behind them as they sink until at last they are quiet. And the pond lifts them in its manifold dark arms. But death must come to them differently, so close to the beginning. As though they had always been blind and weightless. Therefore the rest is dreamed, the lamp,

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