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ON TIMELY DEATH by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Poet Analysis

First Line: IS IT NOT BETTER AT AN EARLY HOUR
Last Line: THAN SIT THE FIRE OUT AND GO STARV'D TO BED?
Subject(s): MORTALITY;

Is it not better at an early hour
In its calm cell to rest the weary head,
While birds are singing and while blooms the bower,
Than sit the fire out and go starv'd to bed?



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