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Until the shadows of the grave had swept o'er every grace, Left midst the awfulness of death on the princely form and face.

And slowly broke the fearful truth upon the watcher’s breast, And they bore away the royal dead with requiems to his rest, With banners and with knightly plumes all waving in the wind— But a woman's broken heart was left in its lone despair behind.