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... head - stones with their dates of woe , It yields no sign of those who rest below . To mourning eyes no outward mark is given That the smooth sward holds all the heart regrets . The graves are level as the empty beds That stand at home ...
... head - stones with their dates of woe , It yields no sign of those who rest below . To mourning eyes no outward mark is given That the smooth sward holds all the heart regrets . The graves are level as the empty beds That stand at home ...
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... head . Yet she who shrieks and cowers In murderous fear , perchance remembers when She blush'd an Amaryllis in the bowers Of rustic love , and life was pure and good . Fell she or was she dragg'd ? The shame and tears Are hers ; but ...
... head . Yet she who shrieks and cowers In murderous fear , perchance remembers when She blush'd an Amaryllis in the bowers Of rustic love , and life was pure and good . Fell she or was she dragg'd ? The shame and tears Are hers ; but ...
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... head , that all might understand How he knew that hoping longer was in vain . Then silent thought the stranger of his wife and children five , As he slowly turn'd with trembling lip aside ; Yet with his heart to feed upon his hopes were ...
... head , that all might understand How he knew that hoping longer was in vain . Then silent thought the stranger of his wife and children five , As he slowly turn'd with trembling lip aside ; Yet with his heart to feed upon his hopes were ...
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... heads begin to nod . Hark ! of conscious guilt the groans ! Ever do I fly its tones : Not for me thy couch of pain- Guilty man ! thou plead'st in vain . But , sweet maiden , who art thou , Pale The Voice of Sleep . 171.
... heads begin to nod . Hark ! of conscious guilt the groans ! Ever do I fly its tones : Not for me thy couch of pain- Guilty man ! thou plead'st in vain . But , sweet maiden , who art thou , Pale The Voice of Sleep . 171.
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... sorrow speaking to the night took all its stars away . No more might fair hands fondly smooth the pillow for his head ; The joyless task was now all mine to lay him in his bed : I laid him in his earth - cold bed , Home Trial . 193.
... sorrow speaking to the night took all its stars away . No more might fair hands fondly smooth the pillow for his head ; The joyless task was now all mine to lay him in his bed : I laid him in his earth - cold bed , Home Trial . 193.
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