Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935). Collected Poems. 1921.
II. The Children of the Night43. Two Quatrains
A
Are in the vision of one moment caught,
So are the common, concrete things of life
Divinely shadowed on the walls of Thought.
W
Till he has rid the ghost of human breath;
We dream to die, but no man ever dies
Till he has quit the road that runs to death.