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Title: For Annie.
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Line-01-001 {{1849-01: Thank //1849-02: THANK }} Heaven! — the crisis —
Line-01-002 [[indent]] The danger is past,
Line-01-003 And the lingering illness
Line-01-004 [[indent]] Is over at last —
Line-01-005 And the fever called “Living”
Line-01-006 [[indent]] Is conquered at last.
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Line-01-007 Sadly, I know,
Line-01-008 [[indent]] I am shorn of my strength,
Line-01-009 And no muscle I move
Line-01-010 [[indent]] As I lie at full length —
Line-01-011 But no matter! — I feel
Line-01-012 [[indent]] I am better at length.
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Line-01-013 And I rest so composedly,
Line-01-014 [[indent]] Now, in my bed,
Line-01-015 That any beholder
Line-01-016 [[indent]] Might fancy me dead —
Line-01-017 Might start at beholding me,
Line-01-018 [[indent]] Thinking me dead.
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Line-01-019 The moaning and groaning,
Line-01-020 [[indent]] The sighing and sobbing {{1849-01: , //1849-02: [[,]] }}
Line-01-021 Are quieted now,
Line-01-022 [[indent]] With that horrible throbbing
Line-01-023 At heart: — ah {{1849-01: , }} that horrible {{1849-01: [[,]] //1849-02: , }}
Line-01-024 [[indent]] Horrible throbbing!
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Line-01-025 The sickness — the nausea —
Line-01-026 [[indent]] The pitiless pain —
Line-01-027 Have ceased, with the fever
Line-01-028 [[indent]] That maddened my brain —
Line-01-029 With the fever called “Living”
Line-01-030 [[indent]] That burned in my brain.
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Line-01-031 And oh! of all tortures
Line-01-032 [[indent]] That torture the worst
Line-01-033 Has abated — the terrible
Line-01-034 [[indent]] Torture of thirst
Line-01-035 For the napthaline rivers
Line-01-036 [[indent]] Of Passion accurst: —
Line-01-037 I have drank of a water
Line-01-038 [[indent]] That quenches all thirst: —
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Line-01-039 Of a water that flows,
Line-01-040 [[indent]] With a lullaby sound,
Line-01-041 From a spring but a very few
Line-01-042 [[indent]] Feet under ground —
Line-01-043 From a cavern not very far
Line-01-044 [[indent]] Down under ground.
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Line-01-045 And ah! let it never
Line-01-046 [[indent]] Be foolishly said
Line-01-047 That my room it is gloomy
Line-01-048 [[indent]] And narrow my bed;
Line-01-049 For man never slept
Line-01-050 [[indent]] In a different bed —
Line-01-051 And, to sleep, you must slumber
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Notes:
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