<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450594" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>His Crossing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is dead. It is over.<br>Did you see his face before his death came; <br>The cancer deepened furrows<br>Of his brow; medicated dilation<br>Of his unfocused eyes; <br>His almost unintelligible pleading<br>For relief from pain? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, at the threshold of his crossing<br>A placid recognition moved<br>Across his face, as if a splender<br>Approched his bed.<br>He seemed to see, he knew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was that the death his faith had taught? <br>Would he have embraced, <br>With ecstaic expression, a skeletal form <br>Robed in cloak and cowl, <br>Surrounded with shadowy dread, <br>Chilling the hearts <br>Of the sick and dying? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who would have smoothed his brow? <br>Who would have released <br>His pain or caused a smile, <br>Except a loving friend? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a sweetness at his passing.<br>What he saw remains an eternal mystery; <br>A vision for which he had no fear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think the Angel of Death<br>Has been much maligned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lynn+W.+Petty">Lynn W. Petty</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450594" data-title="His Crossing de Lynn W. Petty" data-description="He is dead. It is over. Did you see his face before his death came; The cancer deepened furrows Of his brow; medicated dilation Of his unfocused eyes; His almost unintelligible pleading For relief from pain? Yet, at the threshold of his crossi..."></div> </div> </div>

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