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LM on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now!
E'en while with ours thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow.
Dust, to its narrow house beneath! Soul, to its place on high!
They that have seen thy look in death No more may fear to die.
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (25 September 1793 – 16 May 1835) was an English poet. Two of her opening lines, "The boy stood on the burning deck" and
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