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HER PILOT by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: DEATH SEEMED AFRAID TO WAKE HER
Last Line: TO FIND HER VOYAGE DONE.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
Death seemed afraid to wake her;
For, traversing the deep,
When home he came to take her,
He kept her fast asleep.

And, haply, from her dreaming
Of many a risk to run
She woke, with rapture beaming,
To find her voyage done.



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