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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONDEMNED, by WILLIAM G. RYAN Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing a song to silence
Last Line: Than others born to die.
Subject(s): Mortality
First Line: I sing a song to silence
Last Line: Than others born to die.
Subject(s): Mortality
I sing a song to silence,
No one there is to hear;
The notes are echoed fear
Of my impermanence.
The music lives; but I
Enter the soundlessness,
A thing of clay no less
Than others born to die.