The Cross of Snow

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1. In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
2. A gentle face--the face of one long dead--
3. Looks at me from the wall, where round its head
4. The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.
5. Here in this room she died; and soul more white
6. Never through martyrdom of fire was led
7. To its repose; nor can in books be read
8. The legend of a life more benedight.
9. There is a mountain in the distant West
10. That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines
11. Displays a cross of snow upon its side.
12. Such is the cross I wear upon my breast
13. These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes
14. And seasons, changeless since the day she died.
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