For all life’s moods go murmuring like strings

In a low chord, and all things sound all things,

Through alternations of the grave and glad:

Yet, in the end, all things are grave and sad.

I feel all things, but cannot comprehend;

And run, laughing and weeping, to the end

Of the dear mystery, the fated race—

And the deep darkness covers up my face.


IN THE DARK CITY