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 (1792-1822) English poet
Poem (1820), “Death,” st. 3, Posthumous Poems (1824)
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Poem (1820), "Death," st. 3, Posthumous Poems (1824) | WIST Quotations
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.Dave (WIST Quotations)