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Death [Death is here and death is there]

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Title:     Death [Death is here and death is there]
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley [More Titles by Shelley]

1.
Death is here and death is there,
Death is busy everywhere,
All around, within, beneath,
Above is death--and we are death.

2.
Death has set his mark and seal
On all we are and all we feel,
On all we know and all we fear,

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3.
First our pleasures die--and then
Our hopes, and then our fears--and when
These are dead, the debt is due,
Dust claims dust--and we die too.

4.
All things that we love and cherish,
Like ourselves must fade and perish;
Such is our rude mortal lot--
Love itself would, did they not.


[The end]
Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem: Death_

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