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Before us great Death standsOur fate held close within his quiet hands.When with proud joy we lift Life’s red wineTo drink deep of the mystic shining cupAnd ecstasy through all our being leaps—Death bows his head and weeps.
– Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), 'Death' from Collected Poems (1918). Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, described as one of the most 'lyrically intense German-language poets' - renowned for his inherently mystical writings.
