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A woman with a burning flame / Deep covered through the years / With ashes. Ah! she hid it deep, / And smothered it with tears.
Sometimes a baleful light would rise / From out the dusky bed, / And then the woman hushed it quick / To slumber on, as dead.
At last the weary war was done / The tapers were alight, / And with a sigh of victory / She breathed a soft -- good-night!