Constable John Stevens

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    “I did not know that thou wert dead before;
    I did not feel the grief I did sustain;
    The greater stroke astonisheth the more;
    Astonishment takes from us sense of pain.
    I stood amazed when other’s tears begun,
    And now begin to weep when they have done.”
    —Henry Constable (1562–1613)

    “Mrs. John Lyford is so much pleased with the state of
    widowhood as to be going to put in for being a widow again; she
    is to marry a Mr. Fendall.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    “Force is my lot and not pink-clustered
    Roma ni Avignon ni Leyden,
    And cold, my element. Death is my
    Master and, without light, I dwell.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)