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While with Ambition's hectic flame / He wastes the midnight oil, / And dreams, high-throned on heights of fame, / To rest him from his toil, --
Death's Angel, like a vast eclipse, / Above him spreads her wings, / And fans the embers of his lips / To ashes as he sings.