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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Sonnet XX.
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The piteous sobs that choke the Virgin`s breath
  For him, the fair betrothed Youth, who les
  Cold in the narrow dwelling, or the cries
With which a Mother wails her Darling`s death,
These from our Nature`s common impulse spring
  Unblamed, unpraised; but o`er the piled earth,
  Which hides the sheeted corse of gray-haired Worth,
If droops the soaring Youth with slackened wing;
If he recall in saddest minstrelsy 
  Each tenderness bestowed, each truth impressed;
Such Grief is Reason, Virtue, Piety!
And from the Almighty Father shall descend
  Comforts on his late Evening, whose young breast
Mourns with no transient love the aged friend.
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