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DEATH IN LIFE.<br />

Give me thy hand and lay it near<br />

Against my heart — now dost thou hear<br />

How loud the noisy hammers beat<br />

Within the narrow chamber, sweet ?<br />

There dwells a carpenter within.<br />

Who works amid this ceaseless din.<br />

A cruel man is he —I trow<br />

My coffin he is making now.<br />

This weary knocking, night and day.<br />

Long since has driven sleep away.<br />

Good carpenter, now work thy best<br />

And let me soon lie still and rest.<br />

TREU<br />

UND-FEST.<br />

I loved thee once, I love thee still.<br />

And, fell this world asunder.<br />

My love's eternal flame would rise<br />

'Midst chaos, crash, and thunder!<br />

LESSING.<br />

His wit was no little French spaniel<br />

chasing his own shadow; it was more

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