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II View of the Calamity

1 None could avert the
Stroke – though all wished it.

Death is a Conqueror
& a monarch.

All must bow to his scepter
must – traverse the realm of pallor.

No discharge from the war
with him. He lays all pros-
-trate in the grave –

"There the mightiest of the Earth
Sleeps silent & alone &c [etc.]"

The sinewy frame – the iron
Constitution – a long series