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AN ITALIAN SONNET-SEQUENCE: 10, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Death the revealer cast his portals wide
Last Line: Whereon she passed within death's bright abode.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


Death the revealer cast his portals wide,
With torch held high he peered without awhile,
Then looked toward me and with a radiant smile
He beckoned one who stood close by my side.
My tears fell down me like a sobbing tide
That mourns its ebb back from a happy isle.
With hands outstretched I paused at that dread stile;
But she he motioned tarried not nor hied.
I looked at death, but saw life's quenchless light;
Disease's havoc lay defeated, an
Immortal self, strong, loving, pure she showed.
Then spread a magic pathway in my sight,
A bridge of Chinevat, sin cannot span,
Whereon she passed within death's bright abode.





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