"The Hollow Men #5" by Howard Penning. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Howard Penning.
| Epitaph for the Unburied Dead (1919) by |
| from Poetry, November 1919 |
Epitaph for the Unburied Dead[]
The old men sit and sit
Long after they are dead,
And no one seems to know of it —
They look so kind and staid.
The young men beat the bars
That hold them fast inside.
Then one day comes, they beat no more,
And know not they have died.
This poem is in the public domain