Or, to suppose a mournful, mournful case,
To see the dying one with awful dread
Meet death, and call aloud for slighted grace,
O, ’tis most solemn. They who mourn the dead,
Know what religion is upon a dying bed.
IV.
And to the novice ’tis a fearful scene—
The first sad interview with Death. To see
The failure of that wonderful machine—
Our mortal frame; when Death, pale enemy!