If, when hearing that I have been stilled at last, they stand at the door, Watching the full-starred heavens that winter sees,
Will this thought rise on those who will meet my face no more,
“He was one who had an eye for such mysteries”?

–“Afterwards,”
Thomas Hardy

Read the passage. What is the meaning of the euphemism "I have been stilled”?

I am speechless.
I have died.
I have been abandoned.
I am lonely.

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