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DEAD OUT-OF-DOORS by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: HIGH FROM THE GROUND, AND BLOWN UPON BY AIR
Last Line: "TO CRY, ""O GRAVE, WHERE IS THY VICTORY!"
Subject(s): DEATH; GRAVES; SOUL; DEAD, THE; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;
HIGH from the ground, and blown upon by air
Sun-sanctified; caught from corruption's mold,
Girdled by streams amidst the foot-hills fair,
With wind-chants making music sweet and old,

This red man rests. Unto the elements
He doth return; his soul soars glad and free,
And e'en his body seems, in going hence,
To cry, "O grave, where is thy victory!"



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