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Algernon Charles Swinburne - Death And BirthAlgernon Charles Swinburne - Death And Birth
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Death and birth should dwell not near together: Wealth keeps house not, even for shame, with dearth: Fate doth ill to link in one brief tether   Death and birth. Harsh the yoke that binds them, strange the girth Seems that girds them each with each:  yet whether Death be best, who knows, or life on earth? Ill the rose-red and the sable feather Blend in one crown`s plume, as grief with mirth: Ill met still are warm and wintry weather,   Death and birth.
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