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The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Flames, Broken, Smoking
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.844, Jazzybee Verlag
The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.