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I am afraid, oh I am so afraid! / The cold black fear is clutching me to-night / As long ago when they would take the light / And leave the little child who would have prayed, / Frozen and sleepless at the thought of death. / My heart that beats too fast will rest too soon; / I shall not know if it be night or noon, -- / Yet shall I struggle in the dark for breath? / Will no one fight the Terror for my sake, / The heavy darkness that no dawn will break? / How can they leave me in that dark alone, / Who loved the joy of light and warmth so much, / And thrilled so with the sense of sound and touch, -- / How can they shut me underneath a stone?