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Quotes from Thanatopsis — William Cullen Bryant

1794–1878 United States

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To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language.

Thanatopsis (1817)

All that tread,
The globe are but a handful to the tribes
That slumber in its bosom.

Thanatopsis (1817)

Go forth under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings.

Thanatopsis (1817)

The hills,
Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun.

Thanatopsis (1817)

Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

Thanatopsis (1817)

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