Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY FRIENDS, WHY SHOULD WE LIVE?, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU



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Last Line: Some far remote and heavenward hill to gain
Subject(s): Life


My friends, why should we live?
Life is an idle war a toilsome peace;
To-day I would not give
One small consent for its securest ease.

Shall we out-wear the year
In our pavilions on its dusty plain
And yet no signal hear
To strike our tents and take the road again?

Or else drag up the slope
The heavy ordnance of nature's train?
Useless but in the hope,
Some far remote and heavenward hill to gain.





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