Death & Dying
A Dying Man Was Sore Perplext
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Death & Dying
A dying man was sore perplext
About what people would do next.
"Now was it not too bad that lead
Should fasten down the helpless dead,
But iron coffins must be made
To suit the tricksters of the trade?
I will not have one, for I doubt
How in the world I should get out.
A strip of deal is not so tough,
Yet may be troublesome enough.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Dying Man Was Sore Perplext.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/909/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Dying Man Was Sore Perplext.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/909/.
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