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He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table, and a long winding-sheet in the candle dripping down upon him. Yet your face is one that I have seen; though it would not be strange, such has been my affright, should I see thee in thy winding-sheet walking by my bedside to-night. The stars sent him their trembling rays, and the moon wrapped him in the white winding-sheet of its effulgence. |
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winding-sheet - burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped