| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | The Seaside and the Fireside | By the Fireside.
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| | | TAKE them, O Death! and bear away | |
| Whatever thou canst call thine own! | |
| Thine image, stamped upon this clay, | |
| Doth give thee that, but that alone! | |
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| Take them, O Grave! and let them lie | 5 |
| Folded upon thy narrow shelves, | |
| As garments by the soul laid by, | |
| And precious only to ourselves! | |
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| Take them, O great Eternity! | |
| Our little life is but a gust | 10 |
| That bends the branches of thy tree, | |
| And trails its blossoms in the dust! | | | | |
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