Reveals itself to him of Nature’s plan,

Even in our verse, and how good for Man!

The Fear of Death

Bk. III. vv. 883-1107, and Bk. III. vv. 9-30

Men’s Words and Thoughts on Death!

One will deny

His and his dead body’s identity;

Yet resent, as if slight to his own worth,

Its rotting when deposited in earth;