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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Happiness in Slumber

Translation of Nathan Haskell Dole

ALONG the road the maiden

Walked with her faithful youth;

Their eyes with grief were laden,

Their faces pale with ruth.

On eyes and lips with yearning

Their tender kisses rain;

And life and beauty returning

Bloom in their hearts again.

Their joy was quickly reckoned:

Twice rang a solemn bell!

She in a convent wakened—

He, in a prison cell!