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The Death-Wake

or Lunacy, A Necromaunt. In Three Chimeras. By Thomas Tod Stoddart

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He lifted the dead girl, and is away
To where a light boat, in its moorings lay,
Like a sea-cradle, rocking to the hush
Of the nurse waters. With a frantic rush
O'er the wild field of tangles he hath sped,
And through the shoaling waves that fell and fled
Upon the furrow'd beach.