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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LAST HERO, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poet's Biography
First Line: We laid him to rest with tenderness
Last Line: How all the story of earth was told.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Earth; Heroism; World War I - Casualties; World; Heroes; Heroines
First Line: We laid him to rest with tenderness
Last Line: How all the story of earth was told.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Earth; Heroism; World War I - Casualties; World; Heroes; Heroines
WE laid him to rest with tenderness;
Homeward we turned in the twilight's gold;
We thought in ourselves with dumb distress—
All the story of earth is told.
A beautiful word at the last was said:
A great deep heart like the hearts of old
Went forth; and the speaker had lost the thread,
Or all the story of earth was told.
The dust hung over the pale dry ways
Dizzily fired with the twilight's gold,
And a bitter remembrance blew in each face
How all the story of earth was told.
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