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Broken-Hearted.

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"Cross my hands upon my breast,"     Read her last behest.     "Turn my cheek upon the pillow,     As resting from life's stormy billow     With sleep's fine zest!"     "Cross my hands upon my breast,"     Read her last behest,     "That the patient bones may lie     In form of thanks eternally,     Grimly expressed!"     We clasped her hands upon her breast:     Oh mockery at misery's hest!     We hid in flowers her body's grief, -     Counting by many a rose and leaf     Her days unblessed!

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""Cross my hands upon my breast,"..."

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