Page:The collected poems, lyrical and narrative, of A. Mary F. Robinson.djvu/35

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Pallor

The great white lilies in the grass
Are pallid as the smile of death;
For they remember still—alas!—
The graves they sprang from underneath.

The angels up in heaven are pale—
For all have died, when all is said;
Nor shall the lutes of Eden avail
To let them dream they are not dead.

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