"Darkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death."

Mortality, Death, Poetry, Longing, Rest

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"Darkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death."

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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."

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