RPO -- Edmund Vance Cooke : Requiescat in Pace

Edmund Vance Cooke (1866-1932)

Requiescat in Pace

1The man who fears to go his way alone,

2 But follows where the greater number tread,

3Should hasten to his rest beneath a stone;

4 The great majority of men are dead.

Notes

1] The Latin phrase in the poem's title is frequently engraved on gravestones and means "Rest in peace."

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: A Patch of Pansies (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894): 49. Microtext Reading Room CIHM no. 29307. Robarts Library
First publication date: 1894
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 2000.
Recent editing: 2:2002/3/20

Rhyme: abab

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