“Be sure that head and heart were laidIn wisdom down, content to die.Be sure he faced the Starless SkyUnduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.(“The Passing of Bierce”)”
George Sterling
The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
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