" For 10 points, name this meditation on death by William Cullen Bryant.
This poem declares that the world compares a "speechless babe" to a "gray-headed man." It asks the reader to "go forth under the open sky" and suggests that "thou shalt lie down / with patriarchs of the infant world." The narrator of this poem implores the reader to "take the wings / of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness / or lose thyself in the Oregon woods." This poem instructs, "approach thy grave / Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch" and is addressed "to him who in the love of nature holds / communion with her visible forms." For 10 points, name this meditation on death by William Cullen Bryant.
This poem declares that the world compares a "speechless babe" to a "gray-headed man.
"Thanatopsis"