Hic Jacet

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Title:     Hic Jacet
Author: William Carlos Williams [More Titles by Williams]

The coroner's merry little children
Have such twinkling brown eyes.
Their father is not of gay men
And their mother jocular in no wise,
Yet the coroner's merry little children
Laugh so easily.

They laugh because they prosper.
Fruit for them is upon all branches.
Lo! how they jibe at loss, for
Kind heaven fills their little paunches!
It's the coroner's merry, merry children
Who laugh so easily.

[The end]
William Carlos Williams's poem: Hic Jacet

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