IN MEMORIAM.
INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. LAURA G. ELLIS, OF AUSTIN.
To-day as the sunshine falls about us, Flooding the earth with its waves of gold,We stand in a deep and rayless shadow, Cruelly dark and icily cold;Shrinking away from the tones of gladness, Turning in tears from the sound of mirth,Seeing in all this beautiful splendor Only one terrible mound of earth.
Only the face of a fair, sweet woman, Shaded with tresses of soft, dark hair,The dear lips closed and the bright eyes faded, Resting asleep in the silence there;Lying so still and cold before us, Never again to move nor speak;Never to lift up the curling lashes Sweeping the colorless, marble cheek.
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