WHY are the things that have no death The ones with neither sight nor breath. Eternity is thrust upon A bit of earth, a senseless stone. A grain of dust, a casual clod Receives the greatest gift of God. A pebble in the roadway lies— It never dies. The grass our fathers cut away Is growing on their graves to-day; The tiniest brooks that scarcely flow Eternally will come and go. There is no kind of death to kill The sands that lie so meek and still... But Man is great and strong and wise— And so he dies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE SALE OF MY FARM by ROBERT FROST ANCHORED TO THE INFINITE by EDWIN MARKHAM THE WALL STREET PIT, MAY, 1901 by EDWIN MARKHAM OCTAVES: 15 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON DON JUAN'S SONG by ISAAC ROSENBERG EPITAPH: FOR MY GRANDMOTHER by COUNTEE CULLEN NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE |