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First Line: Is it not sweet to die? For, what is death
Last Line: In love and the enamelled flowers of song?
Variant Title(s): Death Sweet;the Last Man; Fragment
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


Is it not sweet to die? for, what is death,
But sighing that we ne'er may sigh again,
Getting a length beyond our tedious selves;
But trampling the last tear from poisonous sorrow,
Spilling our woes, crushing our frozen hopes,
And passing like an incense out of man?
Then, if the body felt, what were its sense,
Turning to daisies gently in the grave,
If not the soul's most delicate delight
When it does filtrate, through the pores of thought,
In love and the enamelled flowers of song?




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