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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEAD OUT-OF-DOORS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography
First Line: High from the ground, and blown upon by air
Last Line: "to cry, ""o grave, where is thy victory!"
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: High from the ground, and blown upon by air
Last Line: "to cry, ""o grave, where is thy victory!"
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
HIGH from the ground, and blown upon by air
Sun-sanctified; caught from corruption's mold,
Girdled by streams amidst the foot-hills fair,
With wind-chants making music sweet and old,
This red man rests. Unto the elements
He doth return; his soul soars glad and free,
And e'en his body seems, in going hence,
To cry, "O grave, where is thy victory!"
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