Explore "Death is here and Death is There" by Percy Bysshe Shelley on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
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Death is here and death is there, / Death is busy everywhere, / All around, within, beneath, / Above is death-and we are death.
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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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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.
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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.