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“Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-hair'd shadow roaming like a dream The ever-silent spaces of the East, Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn.”

Death Change Immortality Decay

Book:Tithonus

Source: Tithonus

“Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell.”

War Death Courage Hell Bravery Charge

Book:The Charge of the Light Brigade

Source: The Charge of the Light Brigade

“But there is more than I can see, And what I see I leave unsaid, Nor speak it, knowing Death has made His darkness beautiful with thee.”

Death Beauty Remembering In Memoriam

Author:Alfred Tennyson

“The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan.”

Death Time Decay

Book:Tithonus

Source: Tithonus

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