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Saint Laura in her sleep of death	A
Preserves beneath the tomb	B
'Tis willed where what is willed must be	C
In incorruptibility	D
Her beauty and her bloom	B
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So pure her maiden life had been	E
So free from earthly stain	F
'Twas fixed in fate by Heaven's own Queen	G
That till the earth's last closing scene	G
She should unchanged remain	F
	-
Within a deep sarcophagus	H
Of alabaster sheen	G
With sculptured lid of roses white	D
She slumbered in unbroken night	D
By mortal eyes unseen	G
	-
Above her marble couch was reared	D
A monumental shrine	I
Where cloistered sisters gathering round	D
Made night and morn the aisle resound	D
With choristry divine	I
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The abbess died and in her pride	D
Her parting mandate said	D
They should her final rest provide	D
The alabaster couch beside	D
Where slept the sainted dead	D
	-
The abbess came of princely race	J
The nuns might not gainsay	K
And sadly passed the timid band	D
To execute the high command	D
They dared not disobey	K
	-
The monument was opened then	L
It gave to general sight	D
The alabaster couch alone	M
But all its lucid substance shone	M
With pr ternatural light	D
	-
They laid the corpse within the shrine	I
They closed its doors again	L
But nameless terror seemed to fall	N
Throughout the live long night on all	N
Who formed the funeral train	F
	-
Lo on the morrow morn still closed	D
The monument was found	D
But in its robes funereal drest	D
The corpse they had consigned to rest	D
Lay on the stony ground	D
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So pure her maiden life had been	E
So free from earthly stain	F
'Twas fixed in fate by Heaven's own Queen	G
That till the earth's last closing scene	G
She should unchanged remain	F
	-
Fear and amazement seized on all	N
They salled on Mary's aid	D
And in the tomb unclosed again	L
With choral hymn and funeral train	F
The corpse again was laid	D
	-
So was it found when morning beamed	D
In solemn suppliant strain	F
The nuns implored all saints in heaven	O
That rest might to the corpse be given	O
Which they entombed again	L
	-
On the third night a watch was kept	D
By many a friar and nun	O
Trembling all knelt in fervebt parayer	P
Till on the dreary midnight air	P
Rolled the deep bell toll One	O
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The saint within the opening tomb	B
Like marble statue stood	D
All fell to earth in deep dismay	K
And through their ranks she passed away	K
In calm unchanging mood	D
	-
No answering sound her footsteps raised	D
Along the stony floor	P
Silent as death severe as fate	D
She glided through the chapel gate	D
And none beheld her more	P
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The alabaster couch was gone	Q
The tomb was void and bare	P
For the last time with hasty rite	D
Even 'mid the terror of the night	D
They laid the abbess there	P
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'Tis said the abbess rests not well	R
In that sepulchral pile	S
But yearly when the night comes round	D
And dies of One the bell's deep sound	D
She flits along the aisle	S
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But whither passed the virgin saint	D
To slumber far away	K
Destined by Mary to endure	P
Unfettered in her semblance pure	P
Until the judgement day	K
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None knew and none may ever know	T
Angels the secret keep	U
Impenetrable ramparts bound	D
Eternal silence dwells around	D
The chamber of her sleep	U

Thomas Love Peacock

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