Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | New England: Cambridge, Mass. | | Mount Auburn | | William Winter (1836–1917) |
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AUBURN! sweet Auburn! lovely and beloved! | |
| Peace real, peace lasting, soul-enamoured peace, | |
| The low soft-breathing dreaminess of death | |
| Is in thee and around thee; yea, thou art | |
| The type of that which only death can bring, | 5 |
| Quiet forgetfulness and long repose. | |
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| Sweetness is thine ineffable; the dead | |
| Repose as if in palaces; their sleep | |
| So beauteous seems, so chaste, so calm, so still, | |
| That one might almost envy them the bliss | 10 |
| Of such pure slumber; freed, forever freed, | |
| From all the bitter grief of this cold world, | |
| Its void pretences, shallow sympathies, | |
| And crumbling friendships comfortless and cold. | |
| What love betrayed—how many a broken heart, | 15 |
| What misery—what degradation sleeps | |
| Beneath thy beauteous bosom! now at rest, | |
| Where pain can weary not, nor passion enter in. * * * * * | | | | |
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