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FUNERAL AT NAZARETH.
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FUNERAL AT NAZARETH,

IN PENNSYLVANIA.


The Sabbath summer-sun declined
    To its bright, western goal,
And o'er the green, Moravian vales
    Serene enchantment stole.

'T would seem as if the holy rest
    Of heaven's anointed hour,
Here found response in every breast,
    And breathed from every flower.

Then slowly from the house of God
    Came forth a funeral train,
And with a measured movement trod
    Along the velvet plain.

The little coffin of a babe
    Borne in the midst was seen,
While village children, two and two,
    Walked near, with serious mien.