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Thomas, Dylan A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London

	On-Line Text
Genre	Poem
Keywords	Catastrophe, Children, Death and Dying, Grief, Human Worth, Mourning, Religion
Summary	The author begins by avowing that he would never "mourn the majesty and burning of the child's death." He expresses the utter inadequacy of mere words to describe any child's passing.
Source	The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Publisher	New Directions
Edition	1971
Place Published	New York
Miscellaneous	First published: 1945
Annotated by	Chen, Irene and Aull, Felice
Date of Entry	08/01/93
Last Revised	01/24/03