”Waking or asleep, / Thou of death must deem / Things more true and deep / Than we mortals dream, / Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?”

Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Alfred Clint (credit: Wikipedia)

Read the full poem here.

More from A Right of Passage:

• Memorial Songs: “Casimir Pulaski Day” by Sufjan Stevens 
• “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” 
• Memorial Music: “How I Knew Her” by Nataly Dawn