“The death-bell thrice was heard to ring,
An aerial voice was heard to call,
And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing
Around the towers of Cumnor Hall.”

— William Julius Mickle , Cumnor Hall

Stanza 26, quoted in Walter Scott's Kenilworth, Ch. 41.
Cumnor Hall (1784)

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