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ASLEEP by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR

First Line: THE WAXEN TAPER FAINTLY GLEAMED
Last Line: HIS QUIET VIGIL KEPT.
Subject(s): DREAMS; LOVE; MARRIAGE; SLEEP; NIGHTMARES; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;
THE waxen taper faintly gleamed,
And waxen-white she lay
Upon her silken bed, and dreamed,—
Dreamed of her wedding-day.

Her hand upon a scroll was cast,
Where it was writ in red:
"@3Each lover-errant holds at last
His lady's golden head.@1"

But, bowed as one that sorroweth,
The sombre Nympholept,
The Lover of the Virgins,—Death
His quiet vigil kept.



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