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Dark the halls and cold the feast	A
Gone the bridemaids gone the priest	A
All is over all is done	B
Twain of yesterday are one	B
Blooming girl and manhood gray	C
Autumn in the arms of May	C
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Hushed within and hushed without	D
Dancing feet and wrestlers' shout	D
Dies the bonfire on the hill	E
All is dark and all is still	E
Save the starlight save the breeze	F
Moaning through the graveyard trees	F
And the great sea waves below	G
Pulse of the midnight beating slow	G
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From the brief dream of a bride	H
She hath wakened at his side	H
With half uttered shriek and start	I
Feels she not his beating heart	I
And the pressure of his arm	J
And his breathing near and warm	K
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Lightly from the bridal bed	L
Springs that fair dishevelled head	L
And a feeling new intense	M
Half of shame half innocence	N
Maiden fear and wonder speaks	O
Through her lips and changing cheeks	O
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From the oaken mantel glowing	P
Faintest light the lamp is throwing	P
On the mirror's antique mould	Q
High backed chair and wainscot old	Q
And through faded curtains stealing	P
His dark sleeping face revealing	P
	-
Listless lies the strong man there	R
Silver streaked his careless hair	R
Lips of love have left no trace	S
On that hard and haughty face	S
And that forehead's knitted thought	T
Love's soft hand hath not unwrought	T
	-
'Yet ' she sighs 'he loves me well	U
More than these calm lips will tell	U
Stooping to my lowly state	T
He hath made me rich and great	T
And I bless him though he be	V
Hard and stern to all save me '	-
	-
While she speaketh falls the light	T
O'er her fingers small and white	T
Gold and gem and costly ring	P
Back the timid lustre fling	P
Love's selectest gifts and rare	R
His proud hand had fastened there	R
	-
Gratefully she marks the glow	G
From those tapering lines of snow	G
Fondly o'er the sleeper bending	P
His black hair with golden blending	P
In her soft and light caress	W
Cheek and lip together press	W
	-
Ha that start of horror why	X
That wild stare and wilder cry	X
Full of terror full of pain	Y
Is there madness in her brain	Y
Hark that gasping hoarse and low	G
'Spare me spare me let me go '	-
	-
God have mercy icy cold	T
Spectral hands her own enfold	T
Drawing silently from them	Z
Love's fair gifts of gold and gem	Z
'Waken save me ' still as death	A2
At her side he slumbereth	A2
	-
Ring and bracelet all are gone	B2
And that ice cold hand withdrawn	B2
But she hears a murmur low	G
Full of sweetness full of woe	G
Half a sigh and half a moan	C2
'Fear not give the dead her own '	-
	-
Ah the dead wife's voice she knows	D2
That cold hand whose pressure froze	D2
Once in warmest life had borne	E2
Gem and band her own hath worn	E2
'Wake thee wake thee ' Lo his eyes	F2
Open with a dull surprise	F2
	-
In his arms the strong man folds her	G2
Closer to his breast he holds her	G2
Trembling limbs his own are meeting	P
And he feels her heart's quick beating	P
'Nay my dearest why this fear '	-
'Hush ' she saith 'the dead is here '	-
	-
'Nay a dream an idle dream '	-
But before the lamp's pale gleam	H2
Tremblingly her hand she raises	I2
There no more the diamond blazes	J2
Clasp of pearl or ring of gold	T
'Ah ' she sighs 'her hand was cold '	-
	-
Broken words of cheer he saith	A2
But his dark lip quivereth	A2
And as o'er the past he thinketh	A2
From his young wife's arms he shrinketh	A2
Can those soft arms round him lie	X
Underneath his dead wife's eye	X
	-
She her fair young head can rest	T
Soothed and childlike on his breast	T
And in trustful innocence	N
Draw new strength and courage thence	M
He the proud man feels within	K2
But the cowardice of sin	K2
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She can murmur in her thought	T
Simple prayers her mother taught	T
And His blessed angels call	L2
Whose great love is over all	L2
He alone in prayerless pride	T
Meets the dark Past at her side	T
	-
One who living shrank with dread	T
From his look or word or tread	T
Unto whom her early grave	M2
Was as freedom to the slave	M2
Moves him at this midnight hour	G2
With the dead's unconscious power	G2
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Ah the dead the unforgot	T
From their solemn homes of thought	T
Where the cypress shadows blend	T
Darkly over foe and friend	T
Or in love or sad rebuke	N2
Back upon the living look	O2
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And the tenderest ones and weakest	T
Who their wrongs have borne the meekest	T
Lifting from those dark still places	I2
Sweet and sad remembered faces	I2
O'er the guilty hearts behind	T
An unwitting triumph find	T

John Greenleaf Whittier

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