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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GREAT EVENT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poet's Biography
First Line: The trivial, the small
Last Line: That none survives!
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: The trivial, the small
Last Line: That none survives!
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
The trivial, the small,
Make up our lives;
And yet there comes to all
One great event
That lifts the veriest thrall
Pre-eminent, --
Death, the imperative call
That none survives!
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