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Date Posted: 23:43:26 07/12/04 Mon
Author: jim clark london england
Subject: Death the leveler by James Shirley (listen online)

London born Elizabethan playright cleric and schoolmaster James Shirley 1596 - 1666 qiute bravely for his time spells out with great effect the sure reality that regardless of our social status in life we shall all find equality when deaths final curtain descends. Shirley who was influenced greatly by Francis Beaumont echoes the sentiments of Beaumont's poem "In Westminster Abbey" which you can also hear at this sound website at the following link..
http://tinyurl.com/3nlqn

Heres the link to the page where you can listen online to this and many other classic poems..

http://tinyurl.com/3vske

Regards

Jim Clark
All rights are reserved on this sound recording/copyright/patent Jim Clark 200

Death the Leveler

The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armor against Fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

Some men with swords may reap the field,
And plant fresh laurels where they kill:
But their strong nerves at last must yield;
They tame but one another still:
Early or late
They stoop to fate,
And must give up their murmuriong breath
When they, pale captives, creep to death.

The garlands wither on your brow;
Then boast no more your mighty deeds!
Upon Death's purple altar now
See where the victor-victim bleeds.
Your heads must come
To the cold tomb:
Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

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