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A Reminiscence

By Anne Bronte

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Yes, thou art gone ! and never more     Thy sunny smile shall gladden me ;     But I may pass the old church door,     And pace the floor that covers thee.     May stand upon the cold, damp stone,     And think that, frozen, lies below     The lightest heart that I have known,     The kindest I shall ever know.     Yet, though I cannot see thee more,     'Tis still a comfort to have seen ;     And though thy transient life is o'er,     'Tis sweet to think that thou hast been ;     To think a soul so near divine,     Within a form so angel fair,     United to a heart like thine,     Has gladdened once our humble sphere.

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Anne Brontë (1820–1849) was the youngest of the three Brontë sisters and the author of "Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," one of the first sustained feminist novels in English. Her poetry explores faith, nature, and the condition of women.

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