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They have laid him away; / Even he who was always so strong and gay / Will be locked in the earth till the judgment day; / "Dust unto dust" I have heard the priest say.
He will never return; / Though I weep my eyes blind, though I pray and yearn, -- / Though the star-light goes out and the great suns burn / Into whitest ash, -- he will never return.