The prince who kept the world in awe,
The judge whose dictate fix’d the law;
The rich, the poor, the great, the small,
Are levell’d; Death confounds ’em all.

John Gay (1685-1732) English poet and playwright

Fables, Part 2, Fable 16 “The Ravens, the Sexton, and the Earthworm” (1727)
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