Death & Dying
Immortality
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Death & Dying
My window is the open sky,
The flower in farthest wood is mine;
I am the heir to all gone by,
The eldest son of all the line.
And when the robbers Time and Death
Athwart my path conspiring stand,
I cheat them with a clod, a breath,
And pass the sword from hand to hand!
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Hardy, Arthur Sherburne. “Immortality.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy_as/1/.
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Hardy, Arthur Sherburne. “Immortality.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy_as/1/.
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