Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON THE DEATH OF AN AGED FRIEND, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY


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ON THE DEATH OF AN AGED FRIEND, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are not dead -- life has but set you free
Last Line: You merely smiled to greet another friend!
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Future Life; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology


YOU are not dead—Life has but set you free!
Your years of life were like a lovely song,
The last sweet, poignant notes of which, held long,
Passed into silence while we listened, we
Who loved you, listened still expectantly!
And we about you whom you moved among
Would feel that grief for you were surely wrong—
You have but passed beyond where we can see!

For us who knew you, dread of Age is past!
You took Life, tiptoe, to the very last;
It never lost for you its lovely look;
You kept your interest in its thrilling book;
To you Death came, no conqueror, in the end—
You merely smiled to greet another friend!





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