"Death broke at once the vital chain, / And free'd his soul the nearest way."
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levett
Samuel Johnson, "On the Death of Dr. Robert Levett," <u>The Gentleman's Magazine</u> 53 (August 1783): 695-96. &lt;<a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/3571.html">Link to RPO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://ethnicity.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/levet.html">Link to Jack Lynch's online edition</a>&gt;