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
Dirge
By Charles Gamage Eastman (1816–1860)[From Poems. Revised and Complete Edition. 1880.]
S
She is lying
With her lips apart;
Softly!
She is dying
Of a broken heart.
Life is growing
Dim within her breast;
Whisper!
She is going
To her final rest.
She is sleeping,
She has breathed her last!
Gently!
While you’re weeping
She to heaven has passed.