Between embalmed islands: here no song

That men shall sing in battle and remember

When they are old and grey beside the fire:

Only a story gathered from the hills

And the wind crying of forgotten days,

A story that shall whisper, “All things change—

For friends do grow indifferent, and loves

Die like a dream at morning: bitterness

Is the sure heritage of all men born,

And he alone sees truly, who looks out