Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By The Siege of Valencia (1823). II. Dirge: “Calm on the Bosom of thy God”Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835)
(Scene IX)
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Fair spirit! rest thee now!
E’en while with ours thy footsteps trode
His seal was on thy brow.
Soul, to its place on high!
They that have seen thy look in death
No more may fear to die.