DEATH comes once, let it be easy.
Ring one bell for me once, let it go at that.
Or ring no bell at all, better yet.
  
Sing one song if I die.
Sing John Brown’s Body or Shout All Over God’s Heaven.
Or sing nothing at all, better yet.
  
Death comes once, let it be easy.

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Poet: Carl Sandburg
Poem: 14. Finish
Volume: Smoke and Steel
- X. Panels
Year: Published/Written in 1922
Poem of the Day: Mar 4 2006

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