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THE GRAVE OF DODDRIDGE AT LISBON.
In that fair city by the Tagus' side,I stood beside the grave which holds in trust,
Until the resurrection of the just,
The ashes of a spirit glorified.
I thought of how he lived, and how he died,
And how a sacred reverence guards the dust,
And keeps untarnished by sepulchral rust
A name with Heaven and holiness allied.
A bird was singing in the cypress-tops,—
It seemed an echo of the voice which led
The soul to rise to its immortal hopes,
Repeating still the words on earth it said:
And gleams of light were trembling on the slopes,
Like angels' shadows watching round the dead.
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