In a message dated 08/08/2002 4:47:35 AM US Mountain Standard Time, carl.metzler@juno.com writes: > for he so lived that when his summons came he wrapped the drapery of his > couch about him and lay down to pleasant dreams." > Do you know which poet said that? Thank you. > > From the poem "Thanatopsis", by William Cullen Bryant I am not a scholar, but I had to memorize the last Stanza in the seventh grade in 1940. The last stanza contains the above. I've always wondered why a twelve year old should be made to memorize a poem about death. Rod O'Neal