...And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go K To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible...Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. *° I. The title means a meditation on death (Thanatos, in Greek); it was chosen by the editors of...

...resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shall thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a...Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. True, shortly after writing the poem, Bryant emphasized in his subsequent verse the Unitarian conception...

...go 19. Chuang-tzu, 7.26b; Legge, The Writings of Kwang-zze, II, 66-67; Wilhelm, Dschuang Dsi, 165. To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother...Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. And the conclusion: So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves...

...trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To he a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish...his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his r<x>ts abroad, and pierce thy mould. In associationist terms, Bryant is creating the simple, unified...

...again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible...nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the...

...again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible...nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings, The powerful of the earth—the wise,...

...And, lost each human trace, surrendering up 25 Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible...swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak 30 Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt...

...again. And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible...rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. (P, 31) Bryant's lines on death as union with nature and on stoic acceptance of the passage of time...

...his health. The poet, Bryant, closes Thanatopsis with a measured strain similar to that of Irving: Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou...nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the...

...resolved to earth again. And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a...The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mold. Four years later, when Bryant had moved to Great Barrington, Massachusetts to start his own legal...