Loved And Lost.

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I. Sweetly to sleep beneath the fresh green turf They laid the loved and lost away; A chair is vacant by the household hearth, And shadow-vested Sorrow's there to-day. II. The tender hands that guided us in youth Are folded now upon the gentle breast, And those dear eyes whose depths were love and truth Are closed to open in eternal rest. III. Through simple faith and duty well performed, A crown of light forever shall be hers; And though with bitter grief and anguish mourned, A consolation gleams through blinding tears!

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