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The book is completed,

And closed, like the day;

And the hand that has written it

Lays it away.

Dim grow its fancies,
Forgotten they lie;
Like coals in the ashes,
They darken and die.

Song sinks into silence,
The story is told,

The windows are darkened,
The hearth-stone is cold.

Darker and darker

The black shadows fall; Sleep and oblivion

Reign over all.

THE SEASIDE AND THE FIRESIDE.

1850.

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