“In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
A gentle face — the face of one long dead —
Looks at me from the wall, where round its head
The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.”

The Cross of Snow http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19251 (1879).

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American poet 1807–1882

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