But looked so ghastly in a brother's fate,

He shook her from his arms.

Arrived within the mournful room, he saw

A wild distraction, void of awe,

And arbitrary grief unbounded by a law.

God's image, God's anointed, lay

Without motion, pulse, or breath,

A senseless lump of sacred clay,

An image now of death,

Amidst his sad attendants' groans and cries,