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I IiXXVL—THE PALACE A1STD THE COLLIERY. ...
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I Iixxvl—The Palace A1std The Colliery. ...
I IiXXVL—THE PALACE A _1 _STD THE COLLIERY . I ? I
Ii I When Within That Silken-Curtained R...
II I When within that silken-curtained room , I The dear Husband of our State lay dying
I All the land was shrouded with that gloom , , I Every household echoed to that crying .
I " Think of all those children , " said the parents ; 1 1 One " One far in South Prussia and , one five across within tlie the sea Palace ;
I Little Beatrice , on her mother ' s knee , , Just in the portraits we see dail "
I as y . I Ah ! what fellow-feeling touched the land , I I What a mist of tears went up to Windsor , I that all could understand
I For a grief . j In the churches that Sunday morningI
on , Trembling With his name congregations omittedfor heard the first the prayer time j I
Since we placed the youthful , bridegroom there . 9 All that week the roads and markets I
upon And _G-athered we heard group the s of " listening women in heads the railways were seen " — I I the
1 Talk in tearful whispers of" Queen . " I I But Ere Flies this a electric month time had throug it is passed the h the Queen a anxious royal commissions message crowd , | § 1
I- Words of fellow-feeling deep—not loud . I Asked "Is there the any widow hop to e that those we death can save -struck them wives ? " . B 1
" " Any No "! hope the Lord ! " But hath hark taken ! the all their throbbin | lives g . " answer r I
Sweethearts All those " canny , striplings fellows , children , " all the even husbands | , slept , I A While not unpeaceful the deadly vapor slumber on , seated them crept patient . I I
Twice land within with a month heavy the Lord hand hath smitten 1 I
Eng Twice has roused a very all hearts with tender ; mourning B For a grief that all can understand . ' 1 B
But if Love possesses any healing , I It has sprung to life amidst these woes , — I Taught the nation what a fellow le flows -feeling I
Through the pulses of a peop . I And Englan althoug d gains h the a truth price in has making been most known | bitter , I
To her millions what a common nature 1 Tends the cottage hearth , and fills the throne . I January 27 t 7 i , 1862 . | Bessie K . Fabkes .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 432, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/72/
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