Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
A Death-Bed
By James Aldrich (1810–1856)[Born in Mattituck, L. I., N. Y., 1810. Died in New York, N. Y., 1856. From Poems. Collection of 1884.]
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Yet lived she at its close,
And breathed the long, long night away
In statue-like repose.
Illumed the eastern skies,
She passed through Glory’s morning gate
And walked in Paradise!