“Thanatopsis,” a poem by William Cullen Bryant, tells about how death is a peasant experience. “When thoughts of the last bitter hour come like a blight over thy spirit, and sad images of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, and breathless darkness, and the narrow house, make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart; - Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature’s teachings, while from all around- Earth and her waters, and the depths of air- comes a still voice.” He said that when one die the grave becomes an endless world, how the deceased become one with the earth, the trees, and everything that is great within the Mother Nature, and how when one dies they do not die alone. He describe what feelings and visions one sees when they a
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