The smallest sprout shows there is really no death;
And if ever there was, it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
And ceas’d the moment life appear’d.
All goes onward and outward—nothing collapses;
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
About author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: american
- Born: May 31, 1819
- Died: March 26, 1892