Its lines include references to "the hills, rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun" and "Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste," among its "solemn decorations.
Its lines include references to "the hills, rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun" and "Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste," among its "solemn decorations." Published in the North American Review, it opens by addressing "him who in the love of nature holds / Communion with her visible forms." It was rewritten seven years later to end with the lines "Approach thy grave like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." For 10 points, name this poem, a Meditation on Death written when only 17 years old by William Cullen Bryant.
Its lines include references to "the hills, rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun" and "Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste," among its "solemn decorations.
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