Summary: Summer Vacation Special:<br> The great promise of death.<br> ⁓The Voice before the Void<br> “On the Dunes”<br> Sara Teasdale<br> If there is any life when death is over,<br> These tawny beaches will know much of me,<br> I shall come back, as constant and as changeful<br> As the unchanging, many-colored sea.<br> If life was small, if it has made me scornful,<br> Forgive me; I shall straighten like a flame<br> In the great calm of death, and if you want me<br> Stand on the sea-ward dunes and call my name.<br>
