
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant Abridged by Mari Ohman Music by Michael A. Levine Filmed by Ryan Koenigsman Cast: Mari Ohman- Protagonist Mackenzie Michaels- Soul William Hollman- Soul Sam Armstrong- Soul Christine Groom- Soul Chris Hampton- Soul Filmed with a Canon T2i When thoughts of the last bitter hour come like a blight over thy spirit, and breathless darkness, and the narrow house make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart;-- Go forth, under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around-- Comes a still voice-- In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist thy image. Earth, that nourish'd thee, shall claim thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up thine individual being, shalt thou go to mix for ever with the elements, Yet not to thine eternal resting-place shalt thou retire alone, Thou shalt lie down with patriarchs of the infant world--with kings, The powerful of the earth--the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, the vales, the venerable woods; rivers that move in majesty, and the complaining brooks that make the meadows green; Are but the solemn decorations all of the great tomb of man. All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its buzzum.--Take the wings of morning, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods where <b>...</b>
Thanatopsis
William
Cullen
Bryant
Poetry
Music
Nature
Romantic
Romanticism
Canon
T2i