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LIVING AND DEAD: A SOLEMN REFLECTION

Scanned from Frank Leslie'S Illustrated Newspaper, 1865
LIVING AND DEAD: A SOLEMN REFLECTION
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Aoe ri 362 FRANK LESLIES ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER Fzx 25 1865 THE LIVING AND THE DEAD How great unto the living seem the dead. How sacred solemn how heroie grown. How vast and yague as they obscurely tread. The shadowy confines of the dim unknown.

For they have met the monster that we dread Have learned the secret not to mortal shown Fen as gigantic shadows on the wall. The spirit of the daunted child amaze. So on us thoughts of the departed fall. And with phantasma fill our gloomy gaze Awe and deep wonder lend the living lines.

And hope and ecstacy the borrowed beams. While fitful fancy the full form divines. And all is what imagination dreams. The Fate of the Forrests PART III Sray Evan when the others go.

I have much to say to you and a packet of valuable papers to entrust to you Do not forget. You regard me with a strange look Ursula you speak in a strange tone. What has hap pened. They tell me that Felix will live with care and a journey to the South T catch yeur meaning now.

You will go with him. No my journey will be made.

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