PLATE XXIII.—THE NEW-MARRIED PAIR.
In the first transports of an happy union, this tender couple appears so wholly taken up with each other, and so inebriated with their mutual happiness, that they neither see nor hear. Death, who is marching before them, beating furiously on a little drum, is soon to give a cruel interruption to their enjoyments.
Sola mors me et te separaverit. Ruth i. 17.