Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother, <br />Night and day, on all things that draw breath, <br />Reign, while time keeps friends with one another <br /> Birth and death. <br /> <br />Each brow-bound with flowers diverse of wreath, <br />Heaven they hail as father, earth as mother, <br />Faithful found above them and beneath. <br /> <br />Smiles may lighten tears, and tears may smother <br />Smiles, for all that joy or sorrow saith: <br />Joy nor sorrow knows not from each other <br /> Birth and death.<br /><br />Algernon Charles Swinburne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/birth-and-death/
