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Over the ragged cinders they shall flow and on and on

With the listless falling of streams that find not Oblivion,

For ages and ages of years

Till the last star is gone.

I met with Death in his country,

With his scythe and his hollow eye,

Walking the roads of Belgium.

I looked and he passed me by.

Since he passed me by in Plug Street,

In the wood of the evil name,

I shall not now lie with the heroes,

I shall not share their fame,

I shall never be as they are,

A name in the lands of the Free,

Since I looked on Death in Flanders

And he did not look at me. Dunsany

ROM morn to midnight, all day through,

I laugh and play as others do,

I sin and chatter, just the same

As others with a different name.

And all year long upon the stage,

I dance and tumble and do rage

So vehemently, I scarcely see

The inner and eternal me.

I have a temple I do not

Visit, a heart I have forgot,

A self that I have never met,

A secret shrine—and yet, and yet