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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

V. Death and Bereavement

A Death-Bed

James Aldrich (1810–1856)

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!