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STANZAS by EMILY JANE BRONTE

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First Line: I'LL NOT WEEP THAT THOU ART GOING TO LEAVE ME
Last Line: TO GO AND REST WITH THEE.
Subject(s): GRIEF; DEATH; SORROW; SADNESS; DEAD, THE;

I'LL not weep that thou art going to leave me,
There's nothing lovely here;
And doubly will the dark world grieve me,
While thy heart suffers there.

I'll not weep, because the summer's glory
Must always end in gloom;
And, follow out the happiest story --
It closes with a tomb!

And I am weary of the anguish
Increasing winters bear;
Weary to watch the spirit languish
Through years of dead despair.

So, if a tear, when thou art dying,
Should haply fall from me,
It is but that my soul is sighing,
To go and rest with thee.



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