"An excellent thing it is when life is leaving,— Leaving with gloom and gladness, joys and cares,— The strong heart failing, and the high soul grieving With strangest thoughts, and wild unwonted fears; Then, then a woman's low soft sympathy Comes like an angel's voice to teach us how to die. But a most excellent thing it is in youth, When the fond lover hears the loved one's tone, That fears, but longs, to syllable the truth,— How their two hearts are one, and she his own; It makes sweet human music—oh! the spells That haunt the trembling tale a bright-eyed maiden tells!"
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Edwin Arnold, "Woman's Voice", in Poems, Narrative And Lyrical (1853), p. 158
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