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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.