Death & Dying
Cricket
From Poems (1914)
Death & Dying
Cricket, chirring in the autumn twilight,
Little kinsman,
I, like you, the unknown path must follow
Into darkness,—
One day into darkness.
Would I might, with your ecstatic buoyance,
Fare forth singing!
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MLA
Scollard, Clinton. “Cricket.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scollard/26/.
Chicago
Scollard, Clinton. “Cricket.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scollard/26/.
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