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XIX.

When face to face I stood
With the dim form by death already veiled,
When heart and spirit quailed
Already at life's o'ershadowing solitude,—
Then—though in days gone by
It needed not a cry
To bring sweet answer from the lips divine
That were alive, and mine—

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Then—though the slightest plea
Brought answer back to me
Once—then my soul's most hopeless moan
Wrung forth no answer from thy lips of stone.