Suicide

Thomas Chatterton

20 November 1752 to 24 August 1770 (~18)

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If rope or garter, poison, pistol, sword,
Of valve arterial in the noble parts,
Though varied is the cause, the effect’s the same:
All to one common dissolution tends.
Curtail the miseries of human life?
Since we can die but once, what matters it,
Slow-wasting sickness, or the sudden burst
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Suicide

by Thomas Chatterton

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