Death & Dying
The Soul
From The Poems of Madison Cawein (1907)
Death & Dying
An heritage of hopes and fears
And dreams and memory,
And vices of ten thousand years
God gives to thee.
A house of clay, the home of Fate,
Haunted of Love and Sin,
Where Death stands knocking at the gate
To let him in.
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MLA
Cawein, Madison. “The Soul.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cawein/696/.
Chicago
Cawein, Madison. “The Soul.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cawein/696/.
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