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AN EPITAPH by EDWIN MARKHAM

Poet Analysis

First Line: LET US NOT THINK OF OUR DEPARTED DEAD
Last Line: WHERE ALL MAY TASTE A MORE IMMORTAL BREAD.
Subject(s): DEATH; RELIGION; DEAD, THE; THEOLOGY;

Let us not think of our departed dead
As caught and cumbered in these graves of earth;
But think of death as of another birth,
As a new freedom for the wings outspread,
A new adventure waiting on ahead,
As a new joy of more ethereal mirth,
As a new world with friends of nobler worth,
Where all may taste a more immortal bread.



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