Thursday, January 1, 2004

Elegy On The Death Of A Young Man Comments

Rating: 2.8

Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers,
Echo from the dreary house of woe;
Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers!
Bearing out a youth, they slowly go;
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Friedrich Schiller
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Susan Williams 28 October 2015

Death. A consuming topic for a writer. It is the destination to be feared, and man must find a way to make it more acceptable. Understandable. Less fearsome. Then a young man dies and it's back to the drawing board

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