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And Death, the Sovereign’s Sovereign, though the great

Gracchus of all mortality, who levels,

With his Agrarian laws, the high estate

Of him who feasts, and fights, and roars, and revels,

To one small grass-grown patch (which must await

Corruption for its crop) with the poor devils

Who never had a foot of land till now⁠—

Death’s a reformer⁠—all men must allow.