Poems of Philip Henry Savage / Philip Henry Savage [electronic text]

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Title

Author

Savage, Philip Henry, 1868-1899

Publication

Boston: Small, Maynard, and Company

1900

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"Poems of Philip Henry Savage / Philip Henry Savage [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD0829.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.

Pages

XLVII

DISSOLUTION

THE leaf will fall, through green and gold, To dissolution in the mould.

The tree will fall, and in the sod Complete its final period.

The night will die when one bright ray Shoots up and beckons in the day.

And that bright ray in turn will lie Coffined with all bright things that die;

 Swept out to space, when on this shore Leaf, tree, the earth, (which all upbore), And day and night shall be no more.