''Song of Lament'', sculpted in 1900 on display in the Hungarian National Gallery | Castlevania: Lament of Innocence |
As in William Dunbar's Lament for the Makars, the phrase Timor mortis conturbat me completes each stanza of the dirge; it is noted that Eddison was a scholar of medieval poetry.
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William Dunbar's Lament for the Makars, written around the end of the 15th century, employs the phrase at the last line of each verse.