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And death shall have no dominion
And death shall have no dominion
Dead men naked they shal be one
‘With the man inthe wind and the west moon;
‘When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
‘They shall have starsat elbow and foot;
‘Though they go mad they shall be sane,
“Though they sink through the sea they shall ise again;
“Thovgh lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion
And death shall have no dominion
Under the windings ofthe sea
“They lying long shall not die windy
“Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped toa wheel, yet they shall not breaks
Frith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicotn evils run ther theoughs
Split all ends up they shan crack;
And death shall have no dominion
Ane death shall have no dominion
No more may gulls ey at their ears
(Or waves beeak loud on the seashores;
‘Where blew a flower may a lower no more
Lift its head to the blows ofthe rains
‘Though they be mad and dead as nal
Heads ofthe characters hammer through daisies;
Breakin the sum til the sun bresks down,
And death shall have no dominion
Credit
from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, Copyrignt © 1949 by Naw Directions Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission of New
Directions Publishing Corporation. Allights reserved
Author
Dylan Thomas
) Dylan Marlals Thomas, Born October 27, 1614, n South Wales, was the archetypal Romantic post
of the popular Am
(ean inaginationDate Published: 949-0101
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