We left our digging and burden-bearing; we turned from our scraping and twisting of things and words; we paused from our hurrying hither and thither and walking up and down, and asked in half-whisper: this Death--is this Life?
Du Bois reflects on the existential questions of life and death in a poetic manner.
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