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Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

The Genius of Death

George Croly (1780–1860)

WHAT is Death? ’Tis to be free!

No more to love, or hope, or fear—

To join the great equality:

All alike are humbled there!

The mighty grave

Wraps lord and slave;

Nor pride nor poverty dares come

Within that refuge-house, the tomb!