<h2><SPAN name="AFTER_THE_LAST_LESSON" id="AFTER_THE_LAST_LESSON"></SPAN>AFTER THE LAST LESSON</h2>
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<span class="i0">How wonderful he seems to me,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Now that the lessons are all read,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And, smiling through the stillness dim,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">The child I taught lies dead!<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">I was his teacher yesterday—<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Now, could his silent lips unclose,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">What lessons might he teach to me<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Of the vast truth he knows!<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Last week he bent his anxious brows<br/></span>
<span class="i2">O’er maps with puzzling Poles and Zone;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Now he, perchance, knows more than all<br/></span>
<span class="i2">The scientists have known.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">“Death humbleth all”—ah, say not so!<br/></span>
<span class="i2">The man we scorn, the child we teach<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Death in a moment places far<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Past all earth’s lore can reach.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Death bringeth men unto their own!<br/></span>
<span class="i2">He tears aside Life’s thin disguise,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And man’s true greatness, all unknown,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Stands clear before our eyes.<br/></span>
<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_35" id="page_35">{35}</SPAN></span></div>
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