Death & Dying
After
From Songs of Peace (1917)
Death & DyingNature
And in the after silences
Of flower-lit distances I'll be,
And who would find me travels far
In lands unsung of minstrelsy.
Strong winds shall cross my secret way,
And planet mountains hide my goal,
I shall go on from pass to pass,
By monstrous rocks, a lonely soul.
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Codex Note
Eight lines of what comes after death: he will be in 'flower-lit distances' and 'lands unsung of minstrelsy', a lonely soul going 'from pass to pass'.
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MLA
Ledwidge, Francis. “After.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/43/.
Chicago
Ledwidge, Francis. “After.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/43/.
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