thanatopsis pp fretwell
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Thanatopsis
by
Wi l l iam Cul len Bryant
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To Him who in the love of Nature holds
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Communion with Her visible forms
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She speaks a various language,
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For his gayer hours she has a voice of gladness,
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And a smile and eloquence of beauty,
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And she glides into his darker musings,
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With a mile and healing sympathy, ere He is aware
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When thoughts of the last bitter hour come like a blight over thy spirit,
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And sad images of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall,
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And breathless darkness, and the
narrow house,
Make the to shudder, and grow
sick at heart,
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Go forth under the open sky
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And list to Nature’s teachings
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While from all around, Earth and Her waters, and the depths of air--
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Yet a few days, and thee
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The all beholding sun shall see no more,In all his course,
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Nor yet in the cold ground, where thy pale form was laid,
with many tears,
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Nor in the embrace of the ocean, Shall exist Thy
image,
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Earth that nourished Thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth
again,
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And lost each human trace, Surrendering up thine individual
being,
Shoult thou go to mix forever with the elements,
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To be a brother to the insensible
rock
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain turns with his share, And
treads upon.
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The oak shall send his roots abroad, and
pierce thy mold.
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Yet not to thine eternal resting place shalt thou retire alone,
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Nor couldst thou wish couch more magnificent,
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Thou shalt lie down with partriarchs of the infant world,
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With Kings, the powerful of the Earth—the Wise, the Good,
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,
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All in one mighty sepulchre.
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The hills, rock ribbed and ancient as the sun;
The vales stretching in pensive quietness between;
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The The venerable woods, and rivers that move in majesty
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The complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,Old Ocean’s gray and melancholy waste,
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Are but all the solemn decorationsOf the great tomb of man,
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The golden sun, the planets, All the infinite hosts of
heaven,
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Are shining on the sad abodes of death
Through the still lapse of ages.
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All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes
That slumber in its bosom,
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Take the wings of morning, Pierce the Barcan wilderness,
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Or lose thyself in the continuous woods, where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound save his own
dashings, Yet the dead are there, and millions in those
solitudesShall come and make their bed with thee.
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As the long train of ages glides away, The sons of men, The youth in life’s green spring,
And he goes in the full strength of years, matron and maid,
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Shall one by one be gathered to thy side,
By those who in their turn shall follow them
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So live that when thy summons comes to join
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That innumerable caravan which moves
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To that mysterious realm
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Where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of Death,
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Thou go not like a quarry slave at night, scourged to his dungeon,
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But, sustained and soothed,
By an unfaltering trust,
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Approach Thy grave,
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Like one who wraps the draperyOf his couch about him,
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And lies down to pleasant dreams.