Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DEAD PRAISE NOT THEE, O GOD, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY


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THE DEAD PRAISE NOT THEE, O GOD, by                    
First Line: We are alone: the dead who sleeping lie
Last Line: "we dead."
Variant Title(s): We Are Alone
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


WE are alone: the dead who sleeping lie,
And I who mow the grass above their head.
Since I still move, I say: "The dead—and I,"
But had I thought of what it is to die,
And what to live, I might have simply said,
"We dead."





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