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 Jacob Wisnoski Theresia Hinton  The Nature of Death: A Shakespearean Sonnet Sunlight, the harbinger of life and birth Mother Nature, sheltering her child in the ground The rain, like droplets of blood in the body Earth All to help the newborn child be found

The child grows from his warm earthy womb Father Time holds the new son close and dear A new story hoping to be wove by Nature’s loom Yet a new player, Death, begins to draw near

Winter comes to the lands, bringing the bleak cold night Frigid fingers wrap around the child’s bark The frozen wasteland is covered by a sea of white The child now fades into the abysmal dark

Death comes to claim all no matter what the age, Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player upon the stage