...and personified death as the "Dark Mother" of all: Come, Lovely and Soothing Death, Undulate around the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day,...and for objects and knowledge curious; And for love — But praise! O praise and praise, For the sure-en winding arms of cool-enfolding Death. Dark Mother,...

...song that will tally with the voice of his own spirit into a hymn of acceptance, a carol of joy — "Come lovely and soothing death / Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving" — and it is this song of the soul's tally that will permit Whitman passage to his further and transcendent...

...day wore on, knowing that she would soon leave Hollywood and go back where she had once been happy. "Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the...to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death." She closed the book. Far away she heard a telephone ring. Mrs. Bridwell must have answered it. Marilyn...

...the lilac with mastering odor holds me. 50 And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird. g 51 Over the tree-tops I float thee a song, Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields...

...Lincoln. A few stanzas from the elegy will illustrate: Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate ror,id the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day,...objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise] For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother...

...if by their hands my comrades in the night, And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird. Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the...objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother...

...arriving, arriving, In the day, hi the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death Prated be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and...knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise I praise ! praise ! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother always gliding...

...rapt me, As I held as if by their hands my comrades in the night, Come lovely and soothing death, 135 Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,...life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, 140 And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding...

...like it, we cannot help that. And then we face round, and ask simply whether this is not poetry? — Come, lovely and soothing Death, Undulate round the...to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate Death. Praised be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious; And for...

..."terrorism of history," accompany the speaker to hear the song of the thrush, "the song of death": "Come, lovely, and soothing Death, / Undulate round...delicate Death. // Prais'd be the fathomless universe, / . . . O praise and praise / For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death" (LG Varll, 536)....