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MY MESSMATE by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: WHY FEAR THEE, BROTHER DEATH
Last Line: AND TO THE PAST IS KNOWN.
Subject(s): DEATH; SELF; DEAD, THE;
Why fear thee, brother Death,
That sharest, breath by breath,
This brimming life of mine?
Each draught that I resign
Into thy chalice flows.
Comrades of old are we;
All that the Present knows
Is but a shade of me:
My @3Self@1 to thee alone
And to the Past is known.



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