Mortality
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Publication Information
Published in Lyrics of the Hearthside (1899)
Performed by Herbert Woodward Martin
Musical Settings
Gary Bachlund, Mortality (medium voice and piano) (January 2009)
Recommended Citation
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, "Mortality" (1899). Dunbar Music Archive. 61.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dunbar/61
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Ashes to ashes, dust unto dust,
What of his loving, what of his lust?
What of his passion, what of his pain?
What of his poverty, what of his pride?
Earth, the great mother, has called him again:
Deeply he sleeps, the world's verdict defied.
Shall he be tried again? Shall he go free?
Who shall the court convene? Where shall it be?
No answer on the land, none from the sea.
Only we know as he did, we must:
You with your theories, you with your trust, --
Ashes to ashes, dust unto dust!