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Thoreau's Life & Writings: Poetry
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“Die and be buried who will...”
by Henry D. Thoreau

Die and be buried who will,
I mean to live here still;
My nature grows ever more young
The primitive pines among.

A Note on the Text:

• Source: The Maine Woods  [The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906) p. 90]

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