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" And they held their breath as they left the room, With a shudder to glance at its stillness and gloom. But he — who loved her too well to dread The sweet, the stately, the beautiful dead — He lit his lamp, and took the key, And turned it! Alone again... "
Auld Lang Syne: Selections from the Papers of the "Pen and Pencil Club." - Page 75
by Pen and Pencil Club - 1877 - 176 pages
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After Dogmatic Theology, What?: Materialism, Or a Spiritual Philosophy and ...

Giles Badger Stebbins - Materialism - 1880 - 156 pages
...breaths, as they left the room With a shudder, to glance at its stillness and gloom. But he who laved her too well to dread The sweet , the stately, the beautiful dead, — He lit his lamp and took his key And turned it, — alone were he and she." From the eternal being of God, the next step is...
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Fireside Recitations: Being a Choice Collection of Instructive, Emotional ...

Gus Williams - 1881 - 556 pages
...and nothing there But silence, and scents of eglantere, And jasmine, and roses, and rosemary ; And they said : " As a lady should lie lies she." And...beautiful dead, He lit his lamp and took the key And tinned it — alone again — he and she. He and she : but she Would not speak, Tho' he kissed, in...
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Selections in Verse

American poetry - 1881 - 202 pages
...at its stillness and gloom; But he — who loved her too well to dread The stately, the lovely, and the beautiful dead — He lit his lamp, and took the key And turned it. Alone again he and she, He and she ; but she would not speak, Though he kissed in the old...
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Poetical Works of Edwin Arnold: Containing The Light of Asia, The Indian ...

Sir Edwin Arnold - Buddhism - 1882 - 528 pages
...roses, and rosemary ; And they said, " As a lady should lie, lies she." And they held their breath till they left the room, With a shudder, to glance at its...beautiful dead, He lit his lamp and took the key And turned it — alone again — he and she. He and she ; but she would not speak, Though he kissed, in...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...they held their breath as they left the room, With a shudder to glance at. its stillARNOLD. Cut ho — who loved her too well to dread The sweet, the stately, the beautiful dead, — He lit his lamp, aud look the key, And turn'il it! — Alone again — he and she! He and she; but she would not speak....
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The Lamp [ed. by T.E. Bradley]., Volumes 24-25

Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1883 - 842 pages
...roses, and rosemary; And they said, " As a lady should lie, lies she," And they held their breath till they left the room With a shudder, to glance at its...beautiful dead, He lit his lamp and took the key And turned it — alone again — he and she, He and she ; but she would not speak, Though he kissed, in...
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The Light of Asia; Or, The Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being ...

Sir Edwin Arnold - Buddha and Buddhism - 1883 - 292 pages
...rose0 and rosemary ; And they said, " As a lady should lie, lies she." And tney held their breath till they left the room, With a shudder, to glance at its...beautiful dead, He lit his lamp and took the key And turned it — alone again — he and she. He and she ; but she would not speak, Though he kissed, in...
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Songs of Three Centuries. Ed. by John Greenleaf Whittier. Household Ed. ...

John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1883 - 382 pages
...secret of dying, dear? '' Was it the infinite wonder of all That you ever could let life's flower fall? But he who loved her too well to dread The sweet, the stately, the beautiful dead, '' Or was it a greater marvel to feel The perfect calm o'er the agony steal? •^ Was the miracle greater...
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The Secret of Death, from the Sanskrit: With Some Collected Poems

Sir Edwin Arnold - Death - 1885 - 424 pages
...of the eglantere, And jasmine, and roses, and rosemary ; For they said, " As a lady should lie, lias she ! " And they held their breath as they left the...beautiful Dead, — He lit his lamp, and took the key, And turned it ! — Alone again — he and she ! He and she ; but she would not speak, Though he kiss'd,...
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Representative Poems of Living Poets: American and English

Jeannette Leonard Gilder - American poetry - 1886 - 746 pages
...roses and rosemary; And they said, "As a lady should lie, lies she." 17 And they held their breath till they left the room, With a shudder, to glance at its...beautiful dead, He lit his lamp, and took the key And turned it — alone again — he and she. He and she; but she would not speak, Though he kissed, in...
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