Madam, Life's a piece in bloom
Death goes dogging everywhere:
She's the tenant of the room
He's the ruffian on the stair.
Source: To W.R..
-- William Ernest Henley, (Aug 23 1849-1903), English poet, critic, editor; His journals introduced the early work of many of the great English writers of the 1890s; best known for his poem Invictus.