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Upon the Sands
9

But when he woke not even then,
Although my whispers stirred his hair,
I knew he breathed, away from men,
A higher and a purer air.


The essence of a Godhead's breath,
And that the sleep my darling slept,
Was called of us the body's death—

And then at length I wept.