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The Keys of Morning

While at her bedroom window once,
Learning her task for school,
Little Louisa lonely sat
In the morning clear and cool,
She slanted her small bead-brown eyes
Across the empty street,
And saw Death softly watching her
In the sunshine pale and sweet.

His was a long lean sallow face;
He sat with half-shut eyes,
Like a old sailor in a ship
Becalmed 'neath tropic skies.
Beside him in the dust he had set
His staff and shady hat;
These, peeping small, Louisa saw
Quite clearly where she sat -
The thinness of his coal-black locks,
His hands so long and lean
They scarcely seemed to grasp at all
The keys that hung between:
Both were of gold, but one was small,
And with this last did he
Wag in the air, as if to say,
"Come hither, child, to me!"

Louisa laid her lesson book
On the cold window-sill;
And in the sleepy sunshine house
Went softly down, until
She stood in the half-opened door,
And peeped. But strange to say
Where Death just now had sunning sat
Only a shadow lay:
Just the tall chimney's round-topped cowl,
And the small sun behind,
Had with its shadow in the dust
Called sleepy Death to mind.
But most she thought how strange it was
Two keys that he should bear,
And that, when beckoning, he should wag
The littlest in the air.

by Walter de la Mare

So we're back at this again.
All talk, no action.

I pulled the Ace of Spades in my card reading for Queen Elizabeth II. That's not a good sign for her, but she is in her 90's...

Is she about to be clubbed?

The night is dark and full of terrors! Stars will bleed, and Winter freeze. Darkness falls upon the world!

Blood will spill upon night. I pray to you! O Lord of Light! Save us from the death beyond The Wall!

I believe my cards are hinting that I will be killed by some kind of conflict betwewn the Jack of Spades and Jack of Diamonds.

Perhaps in a war coming?

war sucks big wind. there are better ways to kick the bucket with less violence.

War does indeed suck big wind, but sometimes it can bring positive changes to the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_hand

The fancy Ace of Spades on American Bicycle Cards depict the Roman Goddess of Liberty. Is Lady Liberty a Goddess of Death and War I wonder?

During the Veitnam War American soldiers used Ace of Spade cards for psychological warfare by spreading them around the bodies of their enemies and the villages they destroyed.