So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan which 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 that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
-- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
-- Thanatopsis
The innumerable caravan which 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 that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
-- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
-- Thanatopsis
Related:
- Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn
cometh in in his season.
Old Testament -- Job v,... - Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys,
our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust... - Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O grave! where is thy victory?
O death! where is thy sting? -- Alexander Pope (1688... - For a man can lose neither the past nor the future;
for how can one take from him that which is not his... - Go forth under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings.
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) --... - The Commandments of the EE:
9: Trifle thee not with radioactive tubes and substances lest thou
commence to glow in the dark like a lightning bug,
and thy wife be frustrated and have not further use... - JACK AND THE BEANSTACK
-- by Mark Isaak
Long ago,
in a finite state far away, there lived a JOVIAL character...
From the same category:
- Buy in haste,
repair at leisure... - The Macintosh is Xerox technology at
its best... - I backed up my hard drive and it fell behind
the desk... - SMILEY
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) french... - Clinton: Looks like Carter,
quacks like Carter.....
