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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Cross of SnowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Cross of Snow
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    In the long, sleepless watches of the night,     A gentle face the face of one long dead     Looks at me from the wall, where round its head     The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.   Here in this room she died; and soul more white     Never through martyrdom of fire was led     To its repose; nor can in books be read     The legend of a life more benedight.   There is a mountain in the distant West     That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines     Displays a cross of snow upon its side.   Such is the cross I wear upon my breast     These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes     And seasons, changeless since the day she died.
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