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The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||
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ANTICIPATED DEATH.
Let none be sad for this man when he lies
Alone and out of torment, — past the sting
Of all his various agonies, — but bring
The brightest flowers to lay upon his eyes.
With no high, glad, triumphant chants surprise
His perfect quietness; bend low and sing
Some wistful song, soft as winds whispering
Through leafy branches under twilight skies.
Alone and out of torment, — past the sting
Of all his various agonies, — but bring
The brightest flowers to lay upon his eyes.
With no high, glad, triumphant chants surprise
His perfect quietness; bend low and sing
Some wistful song, soft as winds whispering
Through leafy branches under twilight skies.
And if when death was on him he had yearned
Once more to try his desperate chance, and so
Had died with life and death unreconciled, —
Think of him only as a wayward child,
Who craves ill things because he does not know;
The rest which shall be his he will have earned.
Once more to try his desperate chance, and so
Had died with life and death unreconciled, —
Think of him only as a wayward child,
Who craves ill things because he does not know;
The rest which shall be his he will have earned.
The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||