... incorporated consummation in "Thanatopsis-: So live, that when they summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death; Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who ... one mighty sepulcher. Portrayed above is the belief everyone shares the same fate. As the long train Of ages glide away, the sons of men, The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength of years...

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