Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.
Outre-mer: or, A pilgrimage to the Old world, by an American [H.W. Longfellow]. (ed. 1835)