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Thanatopsis (The Last Nine Lines) by William Cullen Bryant By Barbara J Henry Share Print Save Author Tracker

This is the 2nd poem in a series of my favorites by my favorite poets.
I was introduced to this poem in the 5th grade by my 5th grade teacher who chose me to memorize and recite the last nine(9) lines for a school program.Am I glad I did not have to learn the whole poem!
Since the 5th grade, this poem by William Cullen Bryant has been one of my favorites.

Thanatopsis

William Cullen Bryant

So live that when thy summons comes to join

The innumerable caravan that moves

To that mysterious realm, where each shall take

His chamber in the silent halls of death,

Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,

Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed

By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave

Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch

About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

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