Locales in this poem include "the hills, / Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun", and "Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste;" it also urges the reader to "Take the wings /
Locales in this poem include "the hills, / Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun", and "Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste;" it also urges the reader to "Take the wings / Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness". Beginning "To him who in the love of [*] Nature holds / Communion with her visible forms", this poem describes those who "join the innumerable caravan", saying to "go not, like the quarry-slave at night" but 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 upon death" written at age 17 by William Cullen Bryant.
Locales in this poem include "the hills, / Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun", and "Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste;" it also urges the reader to "Take the wings /
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