III. Last Poems and “The Burial of Sophocles”

“We who have bowed ourselves to Time”

We who have bowed ourselves to time

Now arm an uneventful rime

With panoply of flowers

Through the long summer hours. . . .

But now our fierce and warlike Muse

Doth soft companionship refuse,

And we must mount and ride

Upon a steed untried. . . .