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On the Nature of Things

From Project Gutenberg e-text #785 (public domain in the USA).

Therefore death to us Is nothing, nor concerns us in the least, Since nature of mind is mortal evermore.

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This terror, then, this darkness of the mind, Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light, Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse, But only Nature's aspect and her law, Which, teaching us, hath this exordium: Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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