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A VISION OF LIFE AND DEATH.
'And when she look'd on earth, I thought
She smiled for very glee:
But when she look'd to heav'n, I knew
That tears stood in her ee.
'She held a mirror, there to gaze:
It could no cheer bestow;
For while her beauty cast the shade,
Her breath did make it go.
'A harper's harp did lie by her,
Without the harper's hest;
A monarch's crown did lie by her,
Wherein an owl had nest:
'A warrior's sword did lie by her,
Grown rusty since the fight;
A poet's lamp did lie by her:—
Ah me!—where was its light?'
