Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BED, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)


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First Line: Let it be draped with serge or with brocade
Last Line: Bids welcome and farewell to all his kin.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Beds; Sleep; Heritage; Heredity


LET it be draped with serge or with brocade,
Sad as a bier or merry as a troth,
There man's begot, begets, and dreams in sloth,
Child, husband, grandsire, wife or virgin maid.
Gay or funerëal, with God's water spray'd
Under the cross, or blest with palm, there both
Begins and ends his life, in its long growth
From the first dawn till the last candles fade.

Rustic and shuttered, or, sundown or dawning,
Flaunting its gold and crimson for an awning,
Shapen of rude oak or of sycamore;
Happy is he that slumbers without sin
In the ancestral bed that, stout and hoar,
Bids welcome and farewell to all his kin.





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