Excerpt from Post-Mortem: And Other Poems
The legend of Genesis saith, Formed by his hands from a clod, Brought into life by his breath, Yet here is the crown of creation struck down in the stupor of death.
Naked here lying at length, Two corpses - a man and a boy, One seeming shorn of his strength By a world that is strong to destroy, The other with infantine limbs that can hardly have tasted of joy.
What little their lives were worth The ...
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