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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

V. Death and Bereavement

Inscription on Melrose Abbey

Anonymous

THE EARTH goes on the earth glittering in gold,

The earth goes to the earth sooner than it wold;

The earth builds on the earth castles and towers,

The earth says to the earth—All this is ours.