![]() Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels, To miss the march of this retreating world None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress. They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress. ![]() Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair,īut mocks the steady running of the hour,Īnd if it grieves, grieves richlier than here.įor by my glee might many men have laughed,Īnd of my weeping something had been left, ‘None,’ said that other, ‘save the undone years, ‘Strange friend,’ I said, ‘here is no cause to mourn.’ Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground,Īnd no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan. ![]() With a thousand fears that vision’s face was grained Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless.Īnd by his smile, I knew that sullen hall,-īy his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell. Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred. Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned, ![]()
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