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 'She said, she warm'd a student's heart, But heart and brow 'gan fade: Alas, alas! those Delphic trees Do cast an upas shade!

'She said, she lighted happy hearths, Whose mirth was all forgot: She said, she tunëd marriage bells, Which rang when love was not.

'She said, her name was Life; and then Out laugh'd and wept aloud,— What time the other being strange Lifted the veiling shroud.

'Yea! lifted she the veiling shroud, And breathed the icy breath; Whereat, with inward shuddering, I knew her name was Death.