"Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died."
— Thomas Hood

January 1, 1970

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The Death-Bed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).