Classic Poem

‘Why dost thou so explore,’
Said Glaucus, ‘of what race I am, when like the race of leaves
The race of man is, that deserves no question? Nor receives
My being any other breath. The wind in Autumne strowes
The earth with old leaves; then the Spring the woods with new endowes—
And so death scatters men on earth, so life puts out againe
Man's leavie issue.