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Naissance (Birth)
oil on canvas, 2000
59 by 39 in.

private collection Hoover, AL





Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother,
Night and day, on all things that draw breath,
Reign, while time keeps friends with one another
Birth and death.

Each brow-bound with flowers diverse of wreath,
Heaven they hail as father, earth as mother,
Faithful found above them and beneath.

Smiles may lighten tears, and tears may smother
Smiles, for all that joy or sorrow saith:
Joy nor sorrow knows not from each other
Birth and death.


                                Birth and Death
                                by Algernon Charles Swinburne
                                (1873-1909)




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