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THREE WOOD SONGS: 2. PATH'S END by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY

First Line: DEATH IS HERE, DEATH IS THERE
Last Line: DEATH REMAINS, AND FEAR, AND FEAR.
Subject(s): DEATH; FEAR; DEAD, THE;
Death is here, death is there,
And the darkness everywhere!
In the tree the bird is sleeping,
To the tree the snake is creeping.
O the sound of stifled weeping
None to hear, none to care!

Lost! Lost! No need to peer:
Ends the path here, never clear.
Starlight, no; nor candle's guiding;
Never, never, dark's subsiding,
Night-time holds the bird no hiding.
Death remains, and fear, and fear.



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