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...imperceptible the passage from calm slumber to calmer death, so unobserved the merging of one in the other. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. The sight of sleeping childhood is often suggestive, to their elders, of the more solemn rest that...

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...often surpassed. THE DEATHBED. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro ! So silently we seem'd to speak, — So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her being out...

...she should as gently die. " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " Our very hopes belied onr fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept,...