Death & Dying
Sentiment
From Poetical Works, ed. Skeat (1875)
Death & Dying
Since we can die but once, what matters it,
If rope or garter, poison, pistol, sword,
Slow-wasting sickness, or the sudden burst
Of valve arterial in the noble parts,
Curtail the miseries of human life?
Though varied is the cause, the effect's the same:
All to one common dissolution tends.
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Chatterton, Thomas. “Sentiment.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/chatterton/62/.
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Chatterton, Thomas. “Sentiment.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/chatterton/62/.
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