And Death Shall Have No Dominion
And death shall have no dominion
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones
gone;
They shall have stars at elbow and foot
Though they go mad they shall be sane
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break
Faith in their hands shall snap in two
And the unicorn evils run them through
Split all ends up till shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift it's head to the blows of rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion
- Dylan Thomas
Amarine Umbra (c) to Meagan McCabe