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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Part 7 — FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS

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1793-1835

622.

Dirge

CALM on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now! E’en while with ours thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. 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.

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