• There is a Languor of the Life

    More imminent than Pain —

    'Tis Pain's Successor — When the Soul

    Has suffered all it can —


    A Drowsiness — diffuses —

    A Dimness like a Fog

    Envelops Consciousness —

    As Mists — obliterate a Crag.


    The Surgeon — does not blanch — at pain
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