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Portrait of Felicia Hemans Felicia Hemans Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volumes 21 and 22 1827 (1827)

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 22, Page 730
THE DEATH-DAY OF KÖRNER.* [1]
A song for the death-day of the brave—
A song of pride!
The youth went down to a hero's grave,
With the sword, his bride.† [2]
He went, with his noble heart unworn,
And pure, and high;
An eagle stooping from clouds of morn,
Only to die!
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