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Chadwick, John White: The Hardest Lot - ZaunköniG - 15.07.2007 The Hardest Lot To look upon the face of a dead friend Is hard; but 'tis not more than we can bear If, haply, we can see peace written there,-- Peace after pain, and welcome so the end, Whate'er the past, whatever death may send. Yea, and that face a gracious smile may wear, If love till death was perfect, sweet, and fair; But there is woe from which may God defend: To look upon our friendship lying dead, While we live on, and eat, and drink, and sleep-- Mere bodies from which all the soul has fled-- And that dead thing year after year to keep Locked in cold silence in its dreamless bed:-- There must be hell while there is such a deep. |