He twangs a dull and tuneless lyre.
MORTALITY
A Dissertation
"If a man die, shall he live again?"—Job xiv. 14.
Thou man of Uz,—
The query which thy fevered organs framed,
Unanswered still re-echoes in our ears.
Thy desolate interrogating cry,
Born of affliction, grievous and extreme,
Bridging the gulf of fleeting centuries,
Finds our weak tongues as impotent as thine,