When Willard Phillips first read this poem out loud, Richard Henry Dana responded that "no one on this side of the Atlantic is capable of writing such verses". This poem describes how "the rude swain 
When Willard Phillips first read this poem out loud, Richard Henry Dana responded that "no one on this side of the Atlantic is capable of writing such verses". This poem describes how "the rude swain turns with his share and treads upon" the "sluggish clod". "Patriarchs of the infant world" "and hoary seers of ages past" will be joined by the addressee of this poem, who is told to "lose thyself in the continuous woods where rolls the (*) Oregon" and to "pierce the Barcan wilderness". This poem advises its addressee to "go not like the quarry slave at night" when joining "the innumerable caravan", but to go "like one who . . . lies down to pleasant dreams." For 10 points, name this meditation on death written by William Cullen Bryant.