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...in its power, The silent lecture of death's Sabbath-hour ! 21. One voice that silence breaks—the prayer is said, And the last rite man pays to man...With all the nameless shapes that haunt the deep. LESSON LXXXVIII. Washing-Day. 1. THE Muses are turned gossips ; they have lost The buskined step, and...

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...said, And the last rite man pays to man is paid ; The plashing water marks his resting-place, And folds him round in one long, cold embrace ; Bright bubbles...With all the nameless shapes that haunt the deep. TO THE WHIP-POOR-WILL, BY ELIZABETH F. ELLET. BIRD of the lone and joyless night, Whence is thy sad...