So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. 15

‘Dear as remembered kisses after death,

And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned

On lips that are for others; deep as love,

Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;

O Death in Life, the days that are no more.’ 20

Alfred Tennyson.

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SONNET.

Rise, said the Master, come unto the feast:

She heard the call and rose with willing feet;