Chapter 27

"Thou hast been busy, Death, this day, and yet

But half thy work is done! The gates of hell

Are thronged, yet twice ten thousand spirits more

Who from their warm and healthful tenements

Fear no divorce; must, ere the sun go down,

Enter the world of woe!"-

Southey, Roderick, the Last of the Goths, XXIV, i-6.

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