Life contracts and death is expected, <br />As in season of autumn. <br />The soldier falls. <br /> <br />He does not become a three-days personage. <br />Imposing his separation, <br />Calling for pomp. <br /> <br />Death is absolute and without memorial, <br />As in a season of autumn, <br />When the wind stops, <br /> <br />When the wind stops and, over the heavens, <br />The clouds go, nevertheless, <br />In their direction.<br /><br />Wallace Stevens<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-death-of-a-soldier/
