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FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS
Dust, to its narrow house beneath!
Soul, to its place on high!
They that have seen thy look in death
No more may fear to die.
1794–1854
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WHEN youthful faith hath fled,
Of loving take thy leave;
Be constant to the dead—
The dead cannot deceive.
Sweet modest flowers of Spring,
How fleet your balmy day!
And Man's brief life can bring
No secondary May.
No earthly burst again
Of gladness out of gloom,
Fond hope and vision vain,
Ungrateful to the tomb.
But 'tis an old belief
That on some solemn shore
Beyond the sphere of grief
Dear friends shall meet once more:
Beyond the Sphere of Time
And Sin and Fate's control,
Serene in endless prime
Of body and of soul.
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