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TO THE DEAD (A PARAPHRASE), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone art thou, gone, and is the light
Last Line: I shall be with thee; we again may smile.
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


GONE art thou? gone, and is the light of day
Still shining, is my hair not touch'd with gray?
But evening draweth nigh, I pass the door,
And see thee walking on the dim-lit shore.

Gone, art thou? gone, and weary on the brink
Of Lethe waiting there. O do not drink,
Drink not, forget not, wait a little while,
I shall be with thee; we again may smile.





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