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She dwelt within a convent wall	A
Beside the blue Moselle	B
And pure and simple was her life	C
As is the tale I tell	B
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She never shrank from penance rude	D
And was so young and fair	E
It was a holy holy thing	F
To see her at her prayer	E
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Her cheek was very thin and pale	G
You would have turned in fear	H
If 't were not for the hectic spot	I
That glowed so soft and clear	H
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And always as the evening chime	J
With measured cadence fell	B
Her vespers o'er she sought alone	K
A little garden dell	B
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And when she came to us again	L
She moved with lighter air	E
We thought the angels ministered	I
To her while kneeling there	E
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One eve I followed on her way	M
And asked her of her life	C
A faint blush mantled cheek and brow	N
The sign of inward strife	C
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And when she spoke the zephyrs caught	I
The words so soft and clear	H
And told them over to the flowers	O
That bloomed in beauty near	H
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I know not thus she said to me	P
If my young cheek is pale	G
But daily do I feel within	Q
This life of mine grow frail	G
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There is a flower that hears afar	R
The coming tempest knell	B
And folds its tiny leaves in fear	H
The scarlet Pimpernel	B
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And thus my listening spirit heard	I
The rush of Death's cold wing	F
And tremulously folded close	S
In childhood's early Spring	F
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I never knew a parent's care	E
A sister's gentle love	T
They early left this world of ours	O
For better lands above	T
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And so I loved not earthly joys	U
The merry dance and play	B
But sought to commune with the stars	V
And learn the wind's wild lay	B
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The pure and gentle flowers became	W
As sisters fair to me	P
I needed no interpreter	X
To read their language free	P
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And 'neath the proud and grand old trees	Y
That seemed to touch the sky	Z
We prayed alike with lowly head	I
The violets and I	Z
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And years rolled on and brought to me	P
But woman's lot below	B
Intensest hours of happiness	A2
Intensest hours of woe	B
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For one there was whose word and smile	B
Had power to thrill my heart	I
One eve the summons came for him	B2
To battle to depart	I
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And when again the setting sun	C2
In crimson robed the west	I
They bore him to his childhood's home	D2
The life blood on his breast	I
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Another day at vesper chime	J
They laid him low to sleep	E2
And always at that fated hour	X
I kneel to pray and weep	E2
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'T is said the radiant stars of night	I
When viewed through different air	E
Appear not all in golden robes	F2
But various colors wear	E
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And through another atmosphere	H
My spirit seemed to gaze	G2
For never more wore life to me	P
The hues of other days	G2
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Once to my soul unbidden came	W
A strange and fiery guest	I
That soon assumed an empire there	E
And never is at rest	I
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It binds the chords with arm of might	I
And strikes with impulse strong	H2
I know not whence the visitant	I
But mortals call it song	H2
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It never pants for earthly fame	W
But chants a mournful wail	B
For ever o'er the loved and dead	I
Like wind harps in a gale	B
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She said no more but lingered long	H2
Upon that quiet spot	I
With such a glory on her brow	N
'T will never be forgot	I
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Next eve at nine for prayers we met	I
And missed her from her place	I2
We found her sleeping with the flowers	O
But Death was on her face	I2
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We buried her as she had asked	I
Just at the vesper chime	J
The sunbeams seemed to stay their flight	I
So holy was the time	J
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I've heard that when the rainbow fades	J2
From parting clouds on high	Z
It leaves where smiled the radiant arch	K2
A fragrance in the sky	Z
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It may be fantasy I know	B
But round that hour of Death	L2
I always found an aroma	M2
On every zephyr's breath	L2
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And this is why the twilight hour	X
Is holier far to me	P
Than gorgeous burst of morning light	I
Or moonbeams on the sea	P

Mary Gardiner Horsford

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