And he moaned and trembled from foot to head,

      He shivered from head to foot;

Till, after a time, he lay instead

      Too suddenly still and mute.

I felt beside a stiffening cold..

I dared to lift up just a fold,..

      As in lifting a leaf of the mango-fruit.

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