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In Remembrance

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In the eclipses of your soul, and when you cry      "O God! give more of rest and less of night,"      My words may rest you; and mayhap a light     Shall flash from them bright o'er thy spirit's sky;     Then think of me as one who passes by.     A few brief hours -- a golden August day,     We met, we spake -- I pass fore'er away.     Let ev'ry word of mine be golden ray     To brighten thy eclipses; and then wilt pray     That he who passes thee shall meet thee yet     In the "Beyond" where souls may ne'er forget.

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