Versos English David Park Barnitz V

English poem

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by (1878–1901)

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Death is death; the little host that squirms, The smell, the dark, the coffin clos'd, and I So soft, so soft; no movement, and no breath; No ears, no nose, no eyeballs; Death is Death; The sepulchre, no sight, no sound, no cry, And always; Death is Death; the worms! the worms