Mason A. Freeman, Jr. The Triple Shroud. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

The Triple Shroud

By Mason A. Freeman, Jr.


THIS is the triple shroud,
Spun of a single thread
On spindles of the whirling worlds
In thundering halls of dread;
It makes the living shine as flame,	5
And resurrects the dead.

Life is the shroud of love,
Woven of dust and breath.
Death is the shroud of life;
Love is the shroud of death.	10