And Death Shall
Have No Dominion
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead mean naked they shall
be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked
clean and the clen bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though
they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise
again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no
dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the
sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give
way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall
snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they
shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have
no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the
seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows
of the rain;
Through they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters
hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death
shall have no dominion.
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