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ON THE MOON-LIGHT SHINING UPON A FRIEND'S GRAVE by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER

First Line: SHOW NOT, O MOON! WITH PURE AND LIQUID BEAM
Last Line: AND AFTER BURY'D FRIENDS ARE DOOM'D TO LIVE.
Subject(s): GRAVES; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;
SHOW not, O Moon! with pure and liquid beam,
That mournful spot, where Memory fears to tread;
Glance on the grove, or quiver in the stream,
Or tip the hills -- but shine not on the dead:
It wounds the lonely hearts that still survive,
And after bury'd friends are doom'd to live.





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