Louis Edouard Fournier, "Funeral of Shelley" (1889), Walker Gallery, UK
This world is the nurse of all we know,
This world is the mother of all we feel,
And the coming of death is a fearful blow
To a brain unencompass’d by nerves of steel:
When all that we know, or feel, or see,
Shall pass like an unreal mystery.
- “On Death”, Percy Bysshe Shelley
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