Sapphic Fragment

By Thomas Hardy

6/2/1840-1/11/1928


"Thou shalt be--Nothing."--Omar Khayyam.
"Tombless, with no remembrance."--W. Shakespeare.

Dead shalt thou lie; and nought
         Be told of thee or thought,
For thou hast plucked not of the Muses' tree:
         And even in Hades' halls
         Amidst thy fellow-thralls
No friendly shade thy shade shall company!

DayPoems Poem No. 1082
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