McClure's Magazine/Volume 7/Number 1/And Then?

And then?—Then when the roses Were ripe, they went to seed. And then?—Was seen a white scar Where once a wound did bleed.

And then?—After a little, Hope found she might not stay. And then?—Then as the year waned The swallows went away.

And then?—They laid the hero Among forgotten men Low in the lone God's acre, Beneath a stone.—And then?