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DEATH by AESCHYLUS

First Line: OF ALL GODS DEATH ALONE
Last Line: WE KNOW NOT WHAT HE SAITH.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
OF all Gods Death alone
Disdaineth sacrifice:
No man hath found or shown
The gift that Death would prize.
In vain are songs or sighs,
Pæan, or praise, or moan,
Alone beneath the skies
Hath Death no altar-stone!

There is no head so dear
That men would grudge to Death;
Let Death but ask, we give
All gifts that we may live;
But though Death dwells so near,
We know not what he saith.



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