Date: 1742
"Then welcome, Death, thy dreaded harbingers, / Age and Disease: Disease, though long my guest,-- / That plucks my nerves, those tender strings of life; / Which, pluck'd a little more, will toll the bell / That calls my few friends to my funeral."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1936
"The way / to certainty is charted now, / the sensitive ears alive to sound, / antennae poised for touch, and in the head / all tissue quivering like violin strings."
preview | full record— Edwin Rolfe (1909-1954)