Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OVERHEAD, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON


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OVERHEAD, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you and I are laid away
Last Line: To stop that chatter overhead.
Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


When you and I are laid away
In little boxes under grass,
What will the townsmen say of us
When overhead they smile and pass?

"She was a lovely, quiet thing
Who kept her house so neat and gay.
She was as much in love with life
As she is satisfied today."

"He was the brightest man we had;
He kept us laughing till he died.
It seemed he only had to speak,
And we would chuckle at his side."

Then you and I will rap the boards
And call in language of the dead --
But there'll be nothing we can do
To stop that chatter overhead.






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