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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100
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To: Edwarda who wrote (1625)11/14/1999 2:11:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 3246
 
Edwarda, here is a Hardy poem that is one of my very favorite poems of all. Among other things, it is an answer to Dr. Zhivago, who comforts his dying mother-in-law by telling her that she will live on in the memory of others.

HIS IMMORTALITY

I.

I saw a dead man's finer part
Shining within each faithful heart
Of those bereft. Then said I: "This must be
His immortality.

II.

I looked there as the seasons wore,
And still his soul continuously bore
A life in theirs. But less its shine excelled
Than when I first beheld.

III.

His fellow-yearsmen passed, and then
In later hearts I looked for him again;
And found him -- shrunk, alas! into a thin
And spectral mannikin.

IV.

Lastly I ask--now old and chill--
If aught of him remain unperished still;
And find, in me alone, a feeble spark,
Dying amid the dark.


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