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First Line: She turned round to me with her steadfast eyes
Last Line: But she, meanwhile, only grew statelier.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Tears; Dead, The


She turned round to me with her steadfast eyes:
"I tell you I have looked upon the dead;
"Have kissed the brow and the cold lips;" she said;
"Have called upon the sleeper to arise;
"He loved me, yet he stirred not; on this wise,
"Not bowing in weak agony my head,
"But all too sure of what life is, to dread,
"Learned I that love and hope are fallacies."
She gazed quite calmly on me; and I felt
Awed and astonished and almost afraid:
For what was I to have admonished her?
Then, being full of doubt and fear, I knelt,
And tears came to my eyes even as I prayed:
But she, meanwhile, only grew statelier.





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