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Coolbrith, Ina Donna: Beside the Dead - ZaunköniG - 15.07.2007 Beside the Dead With hands that folded are from every task, It must be sweet, O thou my dead, to lie Sealed with the seal of the great mystery,-- The lips that nothing answer, nothing ask; The life-long struggle ended; ended quite The weariness of patience and of pain; And the eyes closed to open not again On desolate dawn or dreariness of night. It must be sweet to slumber and forget; To have the poor tired heart so still at last: Done with all yearning, done with all regret; Doubt, fear, hope, sorrow, all for ever past: Past all the hours, or slow of wing or fleet-- It must be sweet, it must be very sweet! |