Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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As in her breast the wave of life

Kept heaving to and fro.

The Death-Bed.

Our very hopes belied our fears,

Our fears our hopes belied;

We thought her dying when she slept,

And sleeping when she died.

The Death-Bed.

I remember, I remember

The fir-trees dark and high;