Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Frances Isabel Parnell 185482After Death
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Or shall the darkness close around them, ere the sun-blaze break at last upon thy story?
Shall these lips be sealed in callous death and silence, that have known but to bewail thee?
Shall the mouth be clay that sang thee in thy squalor, when all poets’ mouths shall sing thee?
I should hear, though dead and mouldered, and the grave-damps should not chill my bosom’s burning.
And my heart should toss within the shroud and quiver as a captive dreamer tosses.
Crying, “O my brothers, I have also loved her in her loneliness and sorrow.
Then contented I shall go back to the shamrocks, now mine eyes have seen her glory!”