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The Death Bed

by Thomas Hood


We watch’d her breathing thro’ the night,
  Her breathing soft and low,
As in her breast the wave of life
  Kept heaving to and fro.

But when the morn came dim and sad
  And chill with early showers,
Her quiet eyelids closed — she had
  Another morn than ours.