When the corn is ripe, it is cut down; when the mortal becomes old, death dances over his head.
— Guru Nanak Early Modern

Founder of Sikhism

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Context

From a Shabad, using agricultural metaphor for mortality.

Date / Period

circa 1500

Source

https://www.sikhitothemax.org/shabad?id=356

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Unverifiable

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