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A VISION OF LIFE AND DEATH.
'She said, the student's heart had beat
Against its prison dim;
Until she crush'd the bars of flesh,
And pour'd truth's light on him.
'She said, that they who left the hearth,
For aye in sunshine dwell;
She said, the funeral tolling brought
More joy than marriage bell!
'And as she spake, she spake less loud;
The stream resounded more:
Anon I nothing heard but waves
That wail'd along the shore.'
And what didst thou say, oh my soul,
Upon that mystic strife?
'I said, that Life was only Death,
That only Death was Life.'
