Oh, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died!
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- Footsteps of Angels, closing stanza; Voices of the Night (1839); Full public-domain poem read in cached Gutenberg text, with an independent anthology transcription consulted. Complete closing sentence; “these” refers to the departed loved ones recalled earlier in the poem. This is spiritual consolat
- Footsteps of Angels, closing stanza; Voices of the Night (1839)
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