IN NATURE
A Hundred years later I came to behold
The grave where I was laid to sleep.
The grave digger, singing one of my songs
Had gathered my bones on a heap.
I said to the man, “Find my heart if you can,
From whence came my song’s sad tones.”
The man, quite bewildered, searching in vain,
Found nothing but old bleached bones.
He straightened his back, looked up and said:
“Down there, a heart has no worth.
Though many the hearts you treasured before
All smolder to dust in the earth.”
He finished. I sighed and haltingly asked;
“Is this what you’ve accomplished my heart?”
The grave digger said as if to comfort my grief:
“Thus perish all who once played their part.”
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) between 1929 and 1977 (inclusive) without a copyright notice. The longest-living author of this work died in 1987, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 36 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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