text:  Had they not? The forehead indeed the serene and noble forehead _that_ might be the same; but the frozen eyelids the darkness that seemed to steal from beneath them the marble lips the stiffening hands laid palm to palm as if repeating the supplications of closing anguish could these be mistaken for life? Had it been so wherefore did I not spring to those heavenly lips with tears and never-ending kisses? But so it as _not_