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The roses mourn for her who sleeps / Within the tomb; / For her each lily-flower weeps / Dew and perfume. / In each neglected flower-bed / Each blossom droops its lovely head, -- / They miss her touch, they miss her tread, / Her face of bloom, / Of happy bloom.
The very breezes grieve for her, / A lonely grief; / For her each tree is sorrower, / Each blade and leaf. / The foliage rocks itself and sighs, / And to its woe the wind replies, -- / They miss her girlish laugh and cries, / Whose life was brief, / Was very brief.