Panama and Other Poems Narrative and Occasional By Stephen Phillips: With a Frontispiece by Joseph Pennell |
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THE APPARITION
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Last dawn she stood within my room,I asked her without dread:
“Why com'st thou, dear, in this wan hour
So shyly from the dead?”
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She answered, but her voice was cold,Sweet, but a-cold with death:
“Only between the Dim and Dim,
Have I a moment's breath.”
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