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1824–1905

DEATH.

George MacDonald

Yes, there is one who makes us all lay down Our mushroom vanities, our speculations, Our well-set theories and calculations, Our workman's jacket or our monarch's crown!

To him alike the country and the town, Barbaric hordes or civilized nations, Men of all names and ranks and occupations, Squire, parson, lawyer, Jones, or Smith, or Brown!

He stops the carter: the uplifted whip Falls dreamily among the horses’ straw; He stops the helmsman, and the gallant ship Holdeth to westward by another law;

No one will see him, no one ever saw, But he sees all and lets not any slip.

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