Life Endures | Poem Denies Death
The notion that death is not the end is developed in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s matter-of-fact poem “All Return Again” about the continuance of life beyond what we call death. Hope and believe that there is more and you will surely see your lost loved one in the people around you.
All Return Again
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not
die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again.
Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals
and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out of the
window, sound and well, in some new strange disguise. Jesus is not
dead; he is very well alive; nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor
Aristotle; at times we believe we have seen them all, and could
easily tell the names under which they go.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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