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Remembering Thanatopsis<br />
For those who walk under the fleeting spell of Life,<br />
Memento Mori.<br />
The lab has yet to abstain the hollow, black awakening<br />
Which drinks upon time squandered.<br />
Bombs which defuse on its final count,<br />
Will succeed in destiny and fate.<br />
Without consent Nature calls us back<br />
To her bosom, her deathly embrace—a curse.<br />
And to each man whose sight reaches far awaits<br />
Inevitability, but he quakes and<br />
Suffers the solemn agony of waiting<br />
For a signal which arrives cruelly on<br />
His greatest day. Lost to that forgettable brier<br />
Accompanies yet another of the Uncountable;<br />
Whose reach spans eternity and equal is their<br />
Grief.<br />
All but the last, as it began<br />
Praise which must have fit a billion<br />
All by your side, march along<br />
Silently, but whose footsteps are heard among<br />
The Hearts of the living.<br />
Arranged and read<br />
With decorous poignancy, familiars and strangers<br />
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