Death & Dying

Sentiment

by Thomas Chatterton 1752–1770

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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