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By F. T. Prince (1912–2003) With comment by John Birtwhistle
Frank Prince was a …Stand at the grave's head
Of any common
Man or woman,
Thomas Hardy said,
And in the silence
What they were,
Their life, becomes a poem.
And so with my dead,
As I know them
Now, in his
And her
Long silences;
And wait for, yet a while hence,
My own silence.
Footnotes
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Competing interests Personal acquaintance with the late F.T. Prince.
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Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
Poem reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press and the Estate of F. T. Prince.