Isaac Watts (1674 - 1768)
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (b. 1807-d. 1882)

The Cross of Snow
1     In the long, sleepless watches of the night, 
2         A gentle face -- the face of one long dead -- 
3         Looks at me from the wall, where round its head 
4         The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light. 
5     Here in this room she died; and soul more white 
6         Never through martyrdom of fire was led 
7         To its repose; nor can in books be read 
8         The legend of a life more benedight. 
9     There is a mountain in the distant West 
10       That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines 
11       Displays a cross of snow upon its side. 
12   Such is the cross I wear upon my breast 
13       These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes 
14       And seasons, changeless since the day she died.