The Singer

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Title:     The Singer
Author: James Whitcomb Riley [More Titles by Riley]

While with Ambition's hectic flame
He wastes the midnight oil,
And dreams, high-throned on heights of fame,
To rest him from his toil,--

Death's Angel, like a vast eclipse,
Above him spreads her wings,
And fans the embers of his lips
To ashes as he sings.

[The end]
James Whitcomb Riley's poem: Singer

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