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The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley

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Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)

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VOLUME I
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VOLUME VI
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THE SINGER

While with Ambition's hectic flame
He wastes the midnight oil,
And dreams, high-throned on heights of fame,
To rest him from his toil,—
Death's Angel, like a vast eclipse,
Above him spreads her wings,
And fans the embers of his lips
To ashes as he sings.
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