Death & Dying
XXII
From The Heptalogia
Death & Dying
"'"Some true vein of the absolute soul, which survives
All that flesh runs to waste through"--and lo, this fails!
Here's death close on us! One life? a million of lives!
Why choose one sail to watch of these infinite sails?
Time's a tennis-play? thank you, no, fives!
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/53/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/53/.
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