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DEATH. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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Posthumous Poems (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824).

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DEATH.

    • Death is here and death is there,
    • Death is busy every where,
    • All around, within, beneath,
    • Above is death—and we are death.
    • Death has set his mark and seal
    • On all we are and all we feel,
    • On all we know and all we fear,
    • * * * *
    • 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.
    • 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.