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Cover art for Scythe & Spade lyrics by And Also The Trees

Inspired by J. Shirley

LXIX. Death the Leveller

THE glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

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