BEAUTIFUL DEATH.
Teace on that biow, on that beautiful lnow, Death's loving pxesence hath rested hei now, Beautiful, beautiful child o. the light. Life giew too weary, and Death came to-night-Death, it is hngemrj on petal £.nd bloom, Death sweetly sleep? m that
room — Beautiful, beautiful Death
Folded the hands oa the bosom ot ■snow, Life cannot wake hei with weal 01 .\ith woe, Veiled are the eyes, the cleai loving eyes , Hushed are hei troubles and her"h(-ait's
cries Ye who wouldTc.-a hex', qh ' lei hei seep theie. Clasped iv the ?nr.s of the death-pngel fau — Beautiful, besrntiful Death Death 1 with his v. nigs, his whito, swecpi.-'c,
v.-iiig'?, Ridcth the sloim while the vild tcnLpe^t s m g; — SiPg-5 m a wild, blooding, mys'ica! torque ' Lxillahy =o.^s for the old and the youi g. Death, with his pcacc-crov. n i>ncl lootpunts cf
Imht Taketh this child of eatth't. soircvs to-.n^ht— Beautiful, beautiful Death — Aiiy A. Sro'iswooD.
Launcc s ton, Apnl, 1901
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Otago Witness, Issue 2460, 8 May 1901, Page 59
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162BEAUTIFUL DEATH. Otago Witness, Issue 2460, 8 May 1901, Page 59
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