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Rated: E · Poetry · Death · #1248104
Paradelle: Higher French form
Do not invite death to dine with you.
Do not invite death to dine with you.
Hold fast to life; wage war against it.
Hold fast to life; wage war against it.
Wage war against death.
Do not invite it to dine with you,
Hold fast to life.

Do not consider death a friend.
Do not consider death a friend.
Make no covenant with it and pine for it.
Make no covenant with it and pine for it.
Do not consider death as a covenant, nor pine for it,
A friend with it make.

Do not be in its possession.
Do not be in its possession.
Reject its words of immortality.
Reject its words of immortality.
Do not be in its possession of immortality;
Its words reject.

Do not be in possession of death,
And invite it to dine with you,
A friend,
Reject, wage war against it, and do not
Make it a covenenant of immortality,
Consider not nor pine for it.
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