Death & Dying
A Death-bed
From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics (1899)
Death & Dying
Her suffering ended with the day,
Yet lived she at its close,
And breathed the long, long night away
In statue-like repose.
But when the sun in all his state
Illumed the eastern skies,
She passed through Glory's morning gate
And walked in Paradise.
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