The
living come with grassy tread
To
read the gravestones on the hill;
The
graveyard draws the living still,
But
never anymore the dead.
The
verses in it say and say:
"The
ones who living come today
To
read the stones and go away
Tomorrow
dead will come to stay."
So
sure of death the marbles rhyme,
Yet
can't help marking all the time
How
no one dead will seem to come.
What
is it men are shrinking from?
It
would be easy to be clever
And
tell the stones: Men hate to die
And
have stopped dying now forever.
I
think they would believe the lie.
Robert Frost