Dies, all dies!
The grass it dies, but in vernal rain
Up it springs and it lives again;
Over and over, again and again
It lives, it dies and it lives again.
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation
Melville, Herman. "Pontoosuce." Works. Vol. 16, Constable, 1924, I. 71.
Current Citation
Melville, Herman. "Pontoosuce." Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Penguin Classics, 2006, I. 71.