WHEN all life has been rich in experience shall not Death be rich in experience also? Hold fast to the actual, and do not go outside good sense; Do not let your mind stray into a world of negations and impossibilities, or try to image some future time when it will be unable to image anything—for there is no sense in that. Do not wander too far into time at all, lest with the everlasting Now—the centre of all life and experience, and your own true lover— You fail to keep your first appointment. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DEATH SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THOSE VARIOUS SCALPELS by MARIANNE MOORE |