Decease Poems

If down here I chance to die,
Solemnly I beg you take
All that is left of "I"
To the Hills for old sake's sake,
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On Hellespont, guilty of true-love's blood,
In view and opposite two cities stood,
Sea-borderers, disjoined by Neptune's might;
The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight.
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From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory;
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The day is turning ghost,
And scuttles from the kalendar in fits and furtively,
   To join the anonymous host
Of those that throng oblivion; ceding his place, maybe,
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How like a winter hath my absence been
From Thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
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Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best,
With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest,
What ails thee hang thy head, and cross thine arms,
And sit i' the dust to sigh these sad alarms?
What deluge of new woes thus over-whelm
The glories of thy ever famous Realm?
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From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
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O, that you were your self! But, love, you are
No longer yours than you yourself here live.
Against this coming end you should prepare,
And your sweet semblance to some other give.
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Across a continent imaginary
Because it cannot be discovered now
Upon this fully apprehended planet—
No more applicants considered,
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I wonder do you feel to-day
As I have felt since, hand in hand,
We sat down on the grass, to stray
In spirit better through the land,
This morn of Rome and May?
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There were two hands that held a weapon
For two diverse missions
Decease opposing life was the resolution,
The terrible hand caused pain and death but
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Of Compton I'm not the least bit afraid!
To the thought of Chicago I drink Kool-Aid or lemonade!
Cosa Nostra, by them I could never die!
The FBI, like standing next to a fly
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Of Compton I'm not the least bit afraid!
To the thought of Chicago I drink cool aide or lemonade!
Cosa Nostra, by them I could never die!
The FBI, like standing next to a fly
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The Evangelist (1)

Miracles do exist
before we are born
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