Sunday, September 25, 2011

James Aldrich - A Death-Bed

Her suffering ended with the day;
  Yet lived she at its close,
And breathed the long, long night away,
  In statue-like repose.

But when the sun, in all his state,
  Illumed the eastern skies,
She passed through glory’s morning-gate,
  And walked in Paradise!

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