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“..why should we care so much for death, light upon us or around us whenever it may? Men die daily —or a bell tolls an hour but it is the death note of someone or other; and why hesitate to shorten the span of others, or take overanxious care to prolong our own? It is all a lottery.”

The despair of a soldier whose heir has died in battle.