POEM OF THE MONTH


To be or not to be . . .

To be or not to be That is the question Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or take arms against a sea of troubles And by so doing (defeat them) To die to sleep And by that sleep to say we end the horrors and the thousand shocks that man is heir to To die to sleep To sleep perchance to dream Aye there's the rub For in that sleep of death What dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil A consummation devoutely to be wished 'tis that which makes cowards of all men.

--William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

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