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“...DE LEON-IMMORTAL
BY SAM J. FRENCH.
Si*ce Ust we met, alas, tny comrade said, De Leoa
died--
Forthwith I challenged: Tis not sol De Leon cannot,
did not, will not die,
Only mortal things go through the change called death
and leave no trace of that which in their forms had previously
existed.
The stupid bourgeois dies, bemoaning his sad lot as does
a bellowing kine foundered in the trackless bog,and, like
unto the kine, sinks into the mire of oblivion, to be forgotten
with the passing day.
The churl dies,and death ends all for himis thrown
into the ground, less valued than the rooting swine whose
carcass would at least make food for living men.
The lordling dies, and with much pomp and ceremonial
mummery is laid awayand all posterity recks not that he
lived.
The warrior dies, and, truly in his case, The path of glory
leads but to the grave.
The politician dies, and all his cunning tricks and vulgar
play at what he deems great statesmanship, availeth not to
make his name immortal; een though...”
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