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DEATH is stronger than all the governments because the governments are men and men die and then death laughs: Now you see 'em, now you don't. Death is stronger than all proud men and so death snips proud men on the nose, throws a pair of dice and says: Read 'em and weep. Death sends a radiogram every day: When I want you I'll drop in--and then one day he comes with a master-key and lets himself in and says: We'll go now. Death is a nurse mother with big arms: 'Twon't hurt you at all; it's your time now; just need a long sleep, child; what have you had anyhow better than sleep?
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Death Snips Proud Men
DEATH is stronger than all the governments because the governments are men and men die and then death laughs: Now you see 'em, now you don't. Death is stronger than all proud men and so death snips proud men on the nose, throws a pair of dice and says: Read 'em and weep. Death sends a radiogram every day: When I want you I'll drop in--and then one day he comes with a master-key and lets himself in and says: We'll go now. Death is a nurse mother with big arms: 'Twon't hurt you at all; it's your time now; just need a long sleep, child; what have you had anyhow better than sleep?
Carl Sandburg
1878 - 1967/Male/American