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A Christmas Sermon
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'So be my passing!
My task accomplished and the long day done,
My wages taken, and in my heart
Some late lark singing,
Let me be gathered to the quiet west.
The sundown splendid and serene,
Death.'[1]

[1888.]

THE END

Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.

  1. From A Book of Verses by William Ernest Henley. D. Nutt, 1888.