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She has knelt by that grave for many a day—
    Morn and even still found her beside it:
Soon will that mourner be past away—
    Her grief, the cold grave will hide it.

Her spring of youth was fair for awhile,
    And then the dark cloud came o'er it;
When once the blight checks the rose's smile,
    Where is the spell to restore it?