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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FEE SIMPLE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poet's Biography
First Line: I have brought me a bed in earth
Last Line: That I who am sleeping am I.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: I have brought me a bed in earth
Last Line: That I who am sleeping am I.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones
I have brought me a bed in earth
With a cover of grass and flowers,
An evergreen tree overhead,
And I shall sleep hours and hours.
In fact I do not mean to awake
At anyone's want or will,
For dawn will not come or work to do
Or grief to suffer -- and still.
I'll sleep as long as I please,
Nor ever once turn or sigh.
And best of all I shall not know
That I who am sleeping am I.
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