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To him who in the love of Nature holds	A
Communion with her visible forms she speaks	B
A various language for his gayer hours	C
She has a voice of gladness and a smile	D
And eloquence of beauty and she glides	E
Into his darker musings with a mild	F
And healing sympathy that steals away	G
Their sharpness e're he is aware When thoughts	H
Of the last bitter hour come like a blight	I
Over thy spirit and sad images	J
Of the stern agony and shroud and pall	K
And breathless darkness and the narrow house	L
Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart	M
Go forth under the open sky and list	N
To Nature's teachings while from all around	O
Earth and her waters and the depths of air	P
Comes a still voice Yet a few days and thee	Q
The all beholding sun shall see no more	R
In all his course nor yet in the cold ground	O
Where thy pale form was laid with many tears	S
Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist	N
Thy image Earth that nourished thee shall claim	T
Thy growth to be resolved to earth again	U
And lost each human trace surrendering up	V
Thine individual being shalt thou go	W
To mix for ever with the elements	X
To be a brother to the insensible rock	Y
And to the sluggish clod which the rude swain	Z
Turns with his share and treads upon The oak	A2
Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould	B2
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Yet not to thine eternal resting place	C2
Shalt thou retire alone nor couldst thou wish	D2
Couch more magnificent Thou shalt lie down	E2
With patriarchs of the infant world with kings	F2
The powerful of the earth the wise the good	G2
Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past	H2
All in one mighty sepulchre The hills	I2
Rock ribbed and ancient as the sun the vales	J2
Stretching in pensive quietness between	K2
The venerable woods rivers that move	L2
In majesty and the complaining brooks	M2
That make the meadows green and poured round all	N2
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste	O2
Are but the solemn decorations all	N2
Of the great tomb of man The golden sun	P2
The planets all the infinite host of heaven	P2
Are shining on the sad abodes of death	Q2
Through the still lapse of ages All that tread	R2
The globe are but a handful to the tribes	S2
That slumber in its bosom Take the wings	F2
Of morning and the Barcan desert pierce	T2
Or lose thyself in the continuous woods	U2
Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound	O
Save his own dashings yet the dead are there	P
And millions in those solitudes since first	V2
The flight of years began have laid them down	E2
In their last sleep the dead reign there alone	W2
So shalt thou rest and what if thou withdraw	X2
Unheeded by the living and no friend	Y2
Take note of thy departure All that breathe	Z2
Will share thy destiny The gay will laugh	A3
When thou art gone the solemn brood of care	P
Plod on and each one as before will chase	C2
His favourite phantom yet all these shall leave	B3
Their mirth and their employments and shall come	C3
And make their bed with thee As the long train	Z
Of ages glide away the sons of men	U
The youth in life's green spring and he who goes	D3
In the full strength of years matron and maid	E3
And the sweet babe and the gray headed man	F3
Shall one by one be gathered to thy side	G3
By those who in their turn shall follow them	H3
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So live that when thy summons comes to join	I3
The innumerable caravan that moves	J3
To that mysterious realm where each shall take	K3
His chamber in the silent halls of death	Q2
Thou go not like the quarry slave at night	I
Scourged to his dungeon but sustained and soothed	L3
By an unfaltering trust approach thy grave	M3
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch	N3
About him and lies down to pleasant dreams	O3

William Cullen Bryant

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