Quote#Death
Should pale death with arrow dread
Quote byLydia Sigourney · 1791–1865
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Sailor's Hymn, at Parting", st. 6. Poems for the Sea (1850) p. 107.
English (original)
Should pale death with arrow dread Make the ocean caves our bed, Though no eye of love might see Where that shrouded grave shall be, Thou! who hear'st the surges roll, Deign to save the suppliant soul.
— Lydia Sigourney
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