Grateful To Be Alive
Who is this humbly accepting
But he whose unlikely fortune
In leaping this dangerously near
Learns of life's irretrievable fear!
Not till which jaws of an engulfing
Opened up a dying man's view
Had such for a free-aired birthright
Ever the need, breathless, to fight.
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