Willard Wattles. Epitaph for the Unburied Dead. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Epitaph for the Unburied Dead

By Willard Wattles


THE OLD men sit and sit
Long after they are dead,
And no one seems to know of it—
They look so kind and staid.

The young men beat the bars	5
That hold them fast inside.
Then one day comes, they beat no more,
And know not they have died.