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IMMORTALITY

Their honor to a hateful use,
Nor do the thrushes of the sky
Prepare a wholesale way to die.
Man jars the skyey harmony;
So War, best savior, comes, to friend
Him to his red and sudden end,
Setting his prisoned substance free
For kindlier immortality!

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