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SENTIMENT by THOMAS CHATTERTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: SINCE WE CAN DIE BUT ONCE, WHAT MATTERS IT
Last Line: ALL TO ONE COMMON DISSOLUTION TENDS.
Subject(s): PAIN; SUFFERING; MISERY;

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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