Ashes to ashes, dust unto dust, <br />What of his loving, what of his lust? <br />What of his passion, what of his pain? <br />What of his poverty, what of his pride? <br />Earth, the great mother, has called him again: <br />Deeply he sleeps, the world's verdict defied. <br />Shall he be tried again? Shall he go free? <br />Who shall the court convene? Where shall it be? <br />No answer on the land, none from the sea. <br />Only we know that as he did, we must: <br />You with your theories, you with your trust,-- <br />Ashes to ashes, dust unto dust!<br /><br />Paul Laurence Dunbar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mortality-15/
