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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY DIRGE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the bell toll! Another soul
Last Line: So far from home to die!
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Parting; Illness
First Line: Let the bell toll! Another soul
Last Line: So far from home to die!
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Parting; Illness
Let the bell toll! another soul
Has passed the Stygian river,
Without a fear, without a tear,
'Twas rendered to the Giver!
To God's high throne that young heart's moan
"In pity, spare!" ascended,—
Now spared the woe that reigns below,
That mournful prayer is ended.
Sorrow and doom, and fear and gloom,
No more within its vision;
It now doth raise soft hymns of praise
In happiness Elysian!
A distant strand, a foreign land
Received his parting sigh,—
A mournful fate and desolate
So far from home to die!
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