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Life after Death
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Not on the Stygian shore, nor in clear sheen
Or far Elysian plain, shall we meet those
Among the dead whose pupils we have been,
Nor those great shades whom we have held as foes;
No meadow of asfodel our feet shall tread,
Nor shall we look each other in the face
To love or hate each other being dead,
Hoping some praise, or fearing some disgrace.
We shall not argue saying ??Twas thus? or ?Thus?,
Our argument?s whole drift we shall forget;
Who?s right, who?s wrong, ?twill be all one to us;
We shall not even know that we have met.
Yet meet we shall, and part, and meet again,
Where dead men meet, on lips of living men.
Samuel Butler 1835-1902
http://poetry_pearls.tripod.com/eEPoets/Butler.htm
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Best Wishes - Leli
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Clarification of Answer by
leli-ga
on
05 Mar 2004 22:58 PST
The poem was first published in the "Athenaeum", the London literary
journal, on January 4th 1902, according to the "Oxford Dictionary of
Modern Quotations", edited by Tony Augarde. This suggests the original
title of the poem was a Greek phrase, "Mellonta Tauta", which means
"Things of the Future".
You can use Amazon's "search inside" feature to see the reference on page 43:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/019866141X/qid=1078552176/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/002-9301115-5275232?v=glance&s=books
Butler's poem is probably included in an appendix to Nora Barlow's
edition of "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin".
This list of quotations says "Life after Death", or "Mellonta Tauta",
is on pages 197-198 of "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin".
http://www.public.asu.edu/~quipu/quotes.htm
In Barlow's book pages 197-8 are in Appendix One, entitled "The
Darwin-Butler Controversy". View the contents page and index using
"look inside" at Amazon:
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882
by Charles Darwin, Nora Barlow (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393004872/ref=sib_rdr_dp/002-9301115-5275232?%5Fencoding=UTF8&no=283155&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER&st=books
If you are curious about the connection between Butler and Darwin, as
I was, you will find a short explanation here:
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~alroy/lefa/Butler.html
A longer biography of Butler is here:
http://www.gutenberg.net/etext01/sambt10.txt
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