For 10 points, name this William Cullen Bryant poem that is a meditation on death.
This work's author recalls its creation by citing the influence of "Ode to the Rosemary" by Henry Kirke White and two similarly themed poems of Robert Blair and Bishop Porteus. One entity in this poem "treads upon" "the sluggish clod." It speaks of "complaining brooks," "vales / stretching in pensive quietness" and "hills rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun." This work notes "the gay will laugh, "the solemn brood of care / will plod on" and "each one as before will chase his favorite (*) phantom." Urging its addressee to be "sustained and smoothed by an unfaultering trust," its author was seventeen when he submitted it to the North American Review to get it published. Also mentioning the "Barcan wilderness," it urges for its subject to go "like the quarry halls of night," when he joins the "innumerable caravan." For 10 points, name this William Cullen Bryant poem that is a meditation on death. [Ike]
This work's author recalls its creation by citing the influence of "Ode to the Rosemary" by Henry Kirke White and two similarly themed poems of Robert Blair and Bishop Porteus.
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