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  • Come to the bridal-chamber, Death!
    Come to the mother's, when she feels,
    For the first time, her first-born's breath!
    Come when the blessed seals
    That close the pestilence are broke,
    And crowded cities wail its stroke!

    Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.12