And Death Shall Have No Dominion

And death shall have nodominion.

Dead men naked they shall beone

With the man in the wind andthe west moon;

When their bones are pickedclean 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 nodominion.

Under the windings of the sea

They lying long shall no t diewindily;

Twisting on racks when sinews give way,

Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;

Faith in their hands shallsnap in two,

And the unicorn evils run them through;

Split all ends up they shan’t crack;

And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have nodominion.

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 its head to the blows of the rain;

Though they be mad and dead as nails,

Heads of the characters hammerthrough daisies;

Break in the sun till the sunbreaks down,

And death shall have no dominion.