Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWO QUATRAINS: 2, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON


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First Line: We shriek to live, but no man ever lives
Last Line: Till he has quit the road that runs to death.


We shriek to live, but no man ever lives
Till he has rid the ghost of human breath;
We dream to die, but no man ever dies
Till he has quit the road that runs to death.






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