Death & Dying
Stanza
From Works, ed. Gosse, vol. I (1884)
Death & Dying
Tell them, tho' 'tis an awful thing to die,
'Twas e'en to thee; yet the dread path once trod,
Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high,
And bids the pure in heart behold their God.
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Codex Note
Gray's closing stanza for William Mason's epitaph on his wife (1767).
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Gray, Thomas. “Stanza.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gray/36/.
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Gray, Thomas. “Stanza.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/gray/36/.
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