The flames roll'd on-he would not go
Without his father's word;
That father, faint in death below,
His voice no longer heard. (Felicia Hemans)

The flames roll'd on-he would not go Without his father's word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard.

Felicia Hemans

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