The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have str…

Thomas Hardy
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The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from Neutral Tones) ✨ Thomas Hardy (2014). Hardy: Poems, p.31, Everyman's Library
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