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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPECULATION, by ERON DUNBAR ROWLAND
First Line: It would not be so painful
Last Line: Of life aware.
Subject(s): Mortality
First Line: It would not be so painful
Last Line: Of life aware.
Subject(s): Mortality
It would not be so painful
If one were even grass,
If one had heavenly inkling
Of such a pass.
I have sometimes seen a tree
So full of April bloom;
I should be glad to be
That were my doom,
If all my limbs and branches
And buds and blossoms fair
Were -- though a tree in April --
Of life aware.
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