The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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page 63 of 177 (35%)
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Dimly and spectral, as they rise,
With the light of another world in their eyes! _Crier of the dead._ Wake! wake! All ye that sleep! Pray for the Dead! Pray for the Dead! _Prince Henry._ Why for the dead, who are at rest? Pray for the living, in whose breast The struggle between right and wrong Is raging terrible and strong, As when good angels war with devils! This is the Master of the Revels, Who, at Life's flowing feast, proposes The health of absent friends, and pledges, Not in bright goblets crowned with roses, And tinkling as we touch their edges, But with his dismal, tinkling bell, That mocks and mimics their funeral knell! _Crier of the dead._ Wake! wake! All ye that sleep! Pray for the Dead! Pray for the Dead! _Prince Henry._ Wake not, beloved! be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep! There walks a sentinel at thy gate Whose heart is heavy and desolate, |
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