A quotation from **Shelley**
> First our pleasures die — and then
> Our hopes, and then our fears — and when
> These are dead, the debt is due,
> Dust claims dust — and we die too.
**Percy Bysshe Shelley** (1792-1822) English poet
Poem (1820), “Death,” st. 3, _Posthumous Poems_ (1824)
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