the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come, when it will come.
488
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

Kings and mightiest potentates must die,
For that's the end of human misery.
489
SHAKS.: _1 Henry VI.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

Death lies on her, like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
490
SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act iv., Sc. 5.

Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.
491
SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

Behind her death,
Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet
On his pale horse.
492
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. x., Line 588.

Come to the bridal chamber, Death!
Come to the mother's, when she feels,
For the first time, her first-born's breath;
Come when the blessed seals
That close the pestilence are broke,
And crowded cities wail its stroke;
Come in consumption's ghastly form,
The earthquake shock, the ocean storm;
Come when the heart beats high and warm,
With banquet song, and dance, and wine;
And thou art terrible,--the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier,
And all we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony are thine.
493
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK: _Marco Bozzaris._

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
494
YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night v., Line 1011.

To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
495
MACAULAY: _Lays Anc. Rome, Horatius,_ xxvii.

Leaves have their times to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath,
And stars to set--but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death.
496
MRS. HEMANS: _Hour of Death._

Death is only kind to mortals.
497
SCHILLER: _Complaint of Ceres,_ St. 4.

What a strange, delicious amazement is Death,
To be without body and breathe without breath.
498
EDWIN ARNOLD: _She and He._

There is no Death! What seems so is transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
Whose portal we call death.
499
LONGFELLOW: _Resignation,_ St. 5.

Our days begin with trouble here,
Our life is but a span,
And cruel death is always near,
So frail a thing is man.
500
_From the New England Primer._

Death rides on every passing breeze,
He lurks in every flower.
501
HEBER: _At a Funeral,_ No. i.

How wonderful is Death!
Death and his brother Sleep.
502
SHELLEY: _Queen Mab,_ St. i.

And Death is beautiful as feet of friend
Coming with welcome at our jo