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poets.org Published on Academy of American Poets (httpsipoets.org) And death shall have no dominion And death shall have no dominion Dead men naked they shal be one ‘With the man inthe wind and the west moon; ‘When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, ‘They shall have starsat elbow and foot; ‘Though they go mad they shall be sane, “Though they sink through the sea they shall ise again; “Thovgh lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion And death shall have no dominion Under the windings ofthe sea “They lying long shall not die windy “Twisting on racks when sinews give way, Strapped toa wheel, yet they shall not breaks Frith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicotn evils run ther theoughs Split all ends up they shan crack; And death shall have no dominion Ane death shall have no dominion No more may gulls ey at their ears (Or waves beeak loud on the seashores; ‘Where blew a flower may a lower no more Lift its head to the blows ofthe rains ‘Though they be mad and dead as nal Heads ofthe characters hammer through daisies; Breakin the sum til the sun bresks down, And death shall have no dominion Credit from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, Copyrignt © 1949 by Naw Directions Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. Allights reserved Author Dylan Thomas ) Dylan Marlals Thomas, Born October 27, 1614, n South Wales, was the archetypal Romantic post of the popular Am (ean inagination Date Published: 949-0101 Source URL: httpeloets.ongipoem/and-doath-

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