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Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age: 75 †
Born: 1807
Born: January 1
Died: 1882
Died: March 24
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As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.
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I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!
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Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!
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When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.
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O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?
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All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.
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The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.
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