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I have dreamed of Death: -- what will it be to die / Not in a dream, but in the literal truth / With all Death's adjuncts ghastly and uncouth, / The pang that is the last and the last sigh? / Too dulled, it may be, for a last good-bye, / Too comfortless for any one to soothe, / A helpless charmless spectacle of ruth / Through long last hours, so long while yet they fly. / So long to those who hopeless in their fear / Watch the slow breath and look for what they dread: / While I supine, with ears that cease to hear, / With eyes that glaze, with heart-pulse running down, / (Alas! no saint rejoicing on her bed), / May miss the goal at last, may miss a crown.