"I shall go smiling Into the great beyond, Looking upon the silence as release, Looking upon the darkness as a dream, Looking upon the deep unknown as rest."
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Women authors from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesPoets from New York CityWomen born in the 1880s
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"Mortality", in The New York Times, vol. 78, no. 25,915 (January 6, 1929), sec. 3, p. 1
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Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff
Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff (née Shoemaker, later Carr; July 10, 1888 – December 15, 1967) was an American poet.
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