Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SENTIMENT, by THOMAS CHATTERTON



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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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