English Song Originally

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    Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
    —14th-century English proverb.

    Now that you are laid out,
    useless as a blind dog,
    now that you no longer lurk,
    the song rings in my head.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)