...imperceptible the passage from calm slumber to calmer death, so unobserved the merging of one in the other. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. The sight of sleeping childhood is often suggestive, to their elders, of the more solemn rest that...

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...catches a glimpse of his trick of antithesis which he has employed with such good effect elsewhere : " Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears, our hopes...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died." Thus, while adhering roughly to the divisions "comic" and "serious," it is necessary to keep in view...

...breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when...

...breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when...

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...watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to...moved about. As we had lent her half our powers To ckc her being out Our very hope belied our fears ; Our fears our hope belied ; We thought her dying...

...mir baô @фwert um, la^ bao trauern ! Siebe ftirbt im Setf»e п{ф{. SCHILLER. The Sleep of Death. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. HOOD. Servetqve Sepulcro. A. Ergo non redituras ibit Héctor Qva diris manibus furens Achilles Patroclum...

...breathing soft and low, As in her breast the ware of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak. So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers, To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — • We thought her dying...

...her breast the wave of life, Kept heavirg to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak — So slowl. moved about — As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living oai ! Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when...