THREESCORE AND TEN.
"How many miles to Babylon?
Threescore and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?
Yes, and back again."
How many miles of the weary way?
Threescore miles and ten.
Where shall I be at the end of the day?
Yon shall be back again.
You shall prove it all in the lifelong round;
The joy, and the pain and the sinning;
And at candle-light your soul shall be found
Back—at its new beginning.
Down in his grave the old man lies;
In from the earthward wild,
At the open door of Paradise
Enters a little child.