THE DEAD
THE DEAD
Younever crept into the nightThat lurks for all mankind!Joyous you lived and loved, and leaptInto that gaping dark, where steptOur Fathers all, to findOld honour—jest of fools, yet still the soul of all delight.
Younever crept into the nightThat lurks for all mankind!Joyous you lived and loved, and leaptInto that gaping dark, where steptOur Fathers all, to findOld honour—jest of fools, yet still the soul of all delight.
Younever crept into the night
That lurks for all mankind!
Joyous you lived and loved, and leapt
Into that gaping dark, where stept
Our Fathers all, to find
Old honour—jest of fools, yet still the soul of all delight.