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Last night I watched for Death -- / So sick of life was I! -- / When in the street beneath / I heard his watchman cry / The hour, while passing by.
I called. And in the night / I heard him stop below, / His owlish lanthorn's light / Blurring the windy snow -- / How long the time and slow!