When I Have Passed Away Comments
When I have passed away and am forgotten,
And no one living can recall my face,
When under alien sod my bones lie rotten
With not a tree or stone to mark the place;
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When I have passed away, How a poet would like him to be remembered, and very well rendered.
THE CONENT OF POEM APPEARS SIMPLISTIC YET IT TOUCHES ON MAN'S DESIRE TO BE IMMORTAL / TO BE REMEMBERED
THE CONENT OF POEM APPEARS SIMPLISTIC YET IT TOUCHES ON MAN'S DESIRE TO BE IMMORTAL / TO BE REMEMBERED
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7/19/2025 9:39:46 PM # 1.0.0
It is a reasonable hope that someone in future times might read and enjoy his poems. A consolation for lying dead in his grave. I read in one American poetry anthology that, ' Destitute and in poor health, Claude McKay died alone in Chicago'.