| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 16865 |
| QUOTATION: | We know not what it is, dear, this sleep so deep and still;
The folded hands, the awful calm, the cheek so pale and chill;
The lids that will not lift again, though we may call and call;
The strange white solitude of peace that settles over all. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905), U.S. poet. The Two Mysteries (l. 1–4). . .
World’s Great Religious Poetry, The. Caroline Miles Hill, ed. (1954) The Macmillan Company. |
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