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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By John BanisterTabb

954 The Departed

THEY cannot wholly pass away,

How far soe’er above;

Nor we, the lingerers, wholly stay

Apart from those we love:

For spirits in eternity,

As shadows in the sun,

Reach backward into Time, as we,

Like lifted clouds, reach on.