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Emblems of Mortality

by Hans Holbein

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Death

The Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the Ground, from whence he was taken.

Genesis iii. 23.

Th’ Almighty Father did expel
  Man from his blessed Seat;
And to sustain his Life decreed
  By his own proper Sweat:

Then, first, into the empty World,
  Pale Death an Entrance gain’d;
And the same Pow’r o’er mortal Men,
  Has ever since maintain’d.

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