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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FINIS, by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON
First Line: Gods upon your mountain-tops
Last Line: Do you laugh now to see it dead?
Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: Gods upon your mountain-tops
Last Line: Do you laugh now to see it dead?
Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
Gods upon your mountain-tops—
I hurl you back
This beating, writhing, pain-filled
Clod of flesh and blood.
Did you put it in my keeping as a jest?
Do you laugh now to see it dead?
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