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by Unknown

But the Book of Life was darkened,

By the Shadow of a Hand!

It was tracing your perdition,

For the blood upon your hand!

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A SERENADE.

HE moon is muffled in a cloud,

That folds the lover’s star,

But still beneath thy balcony