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And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked shall be one / With the man in the wind and the west moon; / When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot; / Though they go mad they shall be sane, / Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; / Though lovers be lost love shall not; / And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea / They lying long shall not die windily; / Twisting on racks when sinews give way, / Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two, / And the unicorn evils run them through; / Split all ends up they shan't crack; / And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears / Or waves break loud on the seashores; / Where blew a flower may a flower no more / Lift its head to the blows of the rain; / Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies; / Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, / And death shall have no dominion.