and addresses Death, asking him why he takes the healthy-minded and leaves this mentally defective "lingering": "O death! Thou awe-inspiring prince,/That keepst the world in fear;/Why dost thou tear more blest ones hence,/And leave him ling'ring here?"from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Abe Lincoln as Poet
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Pushing an ordinary dead deer off the side of the cliff is one thing, but here is a deer whose baby is alive, almost ready to be born.
He knows that if he pushes the dead doe over the cliff, he is killing the unborn fawn, so "[b]eside that mountain road [he] hesitated."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: William Stafford's Dead Doe
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