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Dance of Death: Death Waits

Dance of Death: Death Waits

Dance of Death: Death Waits

1919

Medium: etching
Genre: Print
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art

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England, 20th century

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Free me from this body, my voice can carry only so far. Free me from this body, as I lay on the grass it feels heavy and I can't move. Free me from this body, the color burns brown with dark limbs so tired and missing the weightless breadth of above.

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Dance of Death: Death Waits by John Percy — VisualArtsDB