American Idyll

yes, the river knows

Friday, February 07, 2025

And Lies Down To Pleasant Dreams

So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
--William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
Grateful Dead: Black Peter
Grateful Dead: Black Peter...2/13/70




see here how everything
leads up to this day
and it's just like
any other day
that's ever been
sun going up and then
the sun going down
shine through my window
and my friends
they come around

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