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BIRTH AND DEATH, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks the soul within the body held
Last Line: And all that in its prison-house befell.
Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The


METHINKS the soul within the body held
Is as a little babe within the womb,
Which flutters in its antenatal tomb,
But stirs and heaves the prison where 't is cell'd,
And struggles in strange darkness, undispell'd
By all its strivings towards the breath and bloom
Of that aurorean being soon to come --
Strivings of feebleness, by nothing quell'd:
And even as birth to the enfranchis'd child,
Which shows to its sweet senses all the vast
Of beauty visible and audible,
Is death unto the spirit undefil'd;
Setting it free of limit, and the past,
And all that in its prison-house befell.





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