James Aldrich

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James Aldrich (1810–1856) was an editor and minor poet. Aldrich was born in Mattituck, New York, apparently 14 July 1810, and was married in 1836. He was a merchant and editor; he founded the short-lived New York Literary Gazette in 1839, and later in 1842 & 44 worked as an editor on the New World (New York) beginning in 1842. Much of his poetry was published in his Literary Gazette, and not brought together in a collection until after his death, by his daughter who circulated it privately.His poem A Death-Bed is often republished. He died September 9, 1856.)

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A Death-Bed

Her suffering ended with the day,
Yet lived she at its close,
And breathed the long, long night away,
In statue-like repose.

But when the sun in all his state
Illumed the eastern skies,
She passed through Glory's morning gate
And walked in Paradise.

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