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There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
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