Explore "A Poet's Epitaph" by Madison Cawein on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
/ Life was unkind to him; / All things went wrong: / Fortune assigned to him / Merely a song.
/ Ever a mystery / Here to his heart; / In his life's history / Love played no part.
/ Carve on the granite, / There at the end, / Where all may scan it, / _Death was his friend_.
/ _Giving him all he missed / Here upon Earth -- / Love and the call he missed / All that was worth._