Death & Dying
"Out of Reach?"
From Riley Songs of Home (1910)
Death & Dying
You think them "out of reach," your dead?
Nay, by my own dead, I deny
Your "out of reach."--Be comforted:
'Tis not so far to die.
O by their dear remembered smiles
And outheld hands and welcoming speech,
They wait for us, thousands of miles
This side of "out-of-reach."
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MLA
Riley, James Whitcomb. “"Out of Reach?".” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/riley/415/.
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Riley, James Whitcomb. “"Out of Reach?".” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/riley/415/.
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