Frederick Philip Grove
THE DIRGE
(IM 15, 1-33)

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© August 2007

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XX. "Why should I..."[14] by Frederick Philip Grove "Why should you toil and strive and know not rest "When all we come to is but this dark door? "Why should you search and delve to gather lore "When, opening, shutting, this door ends all quest? "Were it not better done to heap up store "And, while you can, obey the gay behest "Of fleeting time which offers of its best "If only you forget what went before?" I would if I but could. No. I would not. She lives in me; and if I did forget, Then must she die forever as she died In time and space but lives in this one spot: The chamber of my soul where I have set Her image as she was, but deified. In Memoriam 15/20