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"Life and Thought have gone away / Side by side, / Leaving door and windows wide; / Careless tenants they! " / "All within is dark as night: / In the windows is no light; / And no murmur at the door, / So frequent on its hinge before. " / TENNYSON.
WHETHER he had simply lost his way in the storm, and had wandered to and fro among the marshes, finding himself again and again turned back by intercepting dykes, till so exhausted that when he slipped and fell, he had no strength to rise; or whether some undetected heart-weakness, rendering him unfit to cope with the icy gale, had resulted in sudden failure of the heart's action, who of those present could say? All was over, long before they found him.