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Then the pale priests, with ceremony due,

Baptized the child within its dreadful tomb

Beneath that mother's heart, whose instinct true

Star-like had battled down the triple gloom

Of sorrow, love, and death: young maidens, too.

Strewed the pale corpse with many a milkwhite bloom,

And parted the bright hair, and on the breast

Crossed the unconscious hands in sign of rest. 640