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Where breathe the sleepers evenly; and lo!After the loud wars, triumphs, trumpets, tearsAnd clamour of man's passion, Death appears,And we must rise and go.Soon are eyes tired with sunshine; soon the ears
Weary of utterance, seeing all is said;Soon, racked by hopes and fears,The all-pondering, all-contriving head,Weary with all things, wearies of the years;And our sad spirits turn toward the dead;And the tired child, the body, longs for bed.
– Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), the Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, famed for Treasure Island, Kidnapped and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. 'Death, To The Dead For Evermore' (date unknown).
