English poem
Wives By The Dozen
O Death how thou spoil'st the best project of life, Said Gabriel, who still as he bury'd one wife, For the sake of her family married her cousin; And thus in an honest collateral line He still married on till his number was nine, Full sorry to die till he made up his dozen.
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