Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EPILOGUE FOR A MASQUE, by JOHN DRINKWATER


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First Line: A little time they lived again, and lo!
Last Line: Shall shape our pilgrimage into a rhyme.
Subject(s): Death; Masks; Time; Dead, The


A LITTLE time they lived again, and lo!
Back to the quiet night the shadows go,
And the great folds of silence once again
Are over fools and kings and fighting-men.

A little while they went with stumbling feet,
With spears of hate, and love all flowery sweet,
With wondering hearts and bright adventurous wills,
And now their dust is on a thousand hills.

We dream of them, as men unborn shall dream
Of us, who strive a little with the stream
Before we too go out beyond the day,
And are as much a memory as they.

And Death, so coming, shall not seem a thing
Of any fear, nor terrible his wing.
We too shall be a tale on earth, and time
Shall shape our pilgrimage into a rhyme.





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