Quote#Death
If I should die to-night
Quote byBenjamin Franklin King Jr. · 1857–1894
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "If I should die".
English (original)
If I should die to-night And you should come in deepest grief and woe— And say:—"Here's that ten dollars that I owe," I might arise in my large white cravat And say, "What's that?"
— Benjamin Franklin King Jr.
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Nothing to breathe but air Quick as a flash 'tis gone; Nowhere to fall but off, Nowhere to stand but on.
Nowhere to go but out, Nowhere to come but back.
Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes To keep one from going nude.
But see! the pains begin to fly; Tho’ Venus bled she could not die: See the new phœnix point her eyes, And lovelier from her ashes rise.
Brighter from her disease she shines, As fire the precious gold refines. Thus when the silent grave becomes Pregnant with life as fruitful wombs; When the wide seas and spacious earth Resign us to our second birth;
'Tis the night—the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play! Ye think that without, The wild winds shout, But no, it is they—it is they!
