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DEATH IS DELIGHTFUL by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER

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First Line: DEATH IS DELIGHTFUL. DEATH IS DAWN
Last Line: BRIGHT GOLD THAN ALL THE EARTH OF EARTH.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn,
The waking from a weary night
Of fevers unto truth and light.
Fame is not much, love is not much,
Yet what else is there worth the touch
Of lifted hands with dagger drawn?
So surely life is little worth:
Therefore I say, look up; therefore
I say, one little star has more
Bright gold than all the earth of earth.



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