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...where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air,1 The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye, 1. Air, in the sense of " outward appearance," is by most etymologists believed to be a different word...

...where beauty lingers ; And niark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek ; And but for that san shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now ; And but for that chill, changeless brow,...

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...first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And mark'd...angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The langour of the placid cheek, And— but for that sad shrouded...

...Appalls the gazing mourner's heart." With these concessions to nature and to fact, we may indeed mark " the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's...traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek." It was the state of the dead which " the preacher " had in view when in his unenlivened mood, he pathetically...

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...of danger and distress, Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), (Before Decay's effacing fingers And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The languor of the placid cheek. The fix'd yet tender traits that streak And—but for that sad shrouded...

...hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And mark'd the...there, The fixed, yet tender, traits that streak The langour of the placid cheek, And, but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not,...