“First our pleasures die — and then
Our hopes, and then our fears — and when
These are dead, the debt is due,
Dust claims dust — and we die too.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Death (Shelley, 2)

Death (1820), st. 3

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

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