death is stronger than
all proud men, throws pair of dice
says: read ’em and weep
Death is stronger than all the governments because the governments are men and men die and then
death laughs: Now you see ’em, now you don’t.
Death is stronger than all proud men and so death snips proud men on the nose, throws a pair of
dice and says: Read ’em and weep.
Death sends a radiogram every day: When I want you I’ll drop in — and then one day he comes with a
master-key and lets himself in and says: We’ll go now.
Death is a nurse mother with big arms: ‘Twont hurt you at all; it’s your time now; you just need a
long sleep, child; what have you had anyhow better than sleep?
Death Snips Proud Men by Carl Sandberg as published in Smoke and Steel in The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (Harcourt, Brace: New York, 1970).
Worth repeating.
Death is stronger than all the governments because the governments are men and men die and then
death laughs: Now you see ’em, now you don’t.
Death is stronger than all proud men and so death snips proud men on the nose, throws a pair of
dice and says: Read ’em and weep.
Worth repeating, but who will listen?
Death sends a radiogram every day: When I want you I’ll drop in — and then one day he comes with a
master-key and lets himself in and says: We’ll go now.
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