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I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Death is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then – I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn’t, luckily, have to bother about that.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.