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Denzil place

a story in verse. By Violet Fane [i.e. M. M. Lamb]

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Sooner than here in England, dawn'd that day
Of desolation, when upon the stair
Sounded the grating footsteps of strange men,
The sable-suited myrmidons of Death,
Coming to bear away that silent form
And hide it from the watching of wet eyes.