Death & Dying
To O. S. C.
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Death & Dying
Spirit of “fire and dew,”
Whither hast fled?
Thy soul they never knew
Who call thee dead.
Deep thoughts of why and how
Shadowed thine eyes:
Thou hast the answers now
Straight from the skies.
Thrilled with a double power,
Nature and Art,—
Dowered with a double dower,
Reason and heart,—
Not souls like thine, in vain
God fashioneth;
Leadeth them forth again,
Gently, by death.
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MLA
Trumbull, Annie Eliot. “To O. S. C.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/trumbull_ae/0/.
Chicago
Trumbull, Annie Eliot. “To O. S. C.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/trumbull_ae/0/.