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From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word, but the light of death.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham

To-morrow she will toil from floor to floor To smile upon the unreplying poor, To stay the tears of widows, and to be Confessor to men's erring hearts... ah me!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Only a panting, breathless plaint quavered over the dumb, unreplying rocks.

From The Eternal Maiden by Harré, T. Everett

Not the face that wept over the city   Nor that with its anguish of pain In the garden, nnlightened by pity   Of angels or men; Nor the suffering form, unreplying.

From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by MacLean, Kate Seymour

Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate, Talker! the unreplying Fate?

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo