I chase yon happy sun to his bright death,

Alas, I know not whither: but I know

I shall not see the myriad shields uphung

In camp to-night, nor on our cypresses

Smoke rise and sink in loath blue fountain spray.

So far, so far I drift from even them

Who fill one gourd with me, who cheer my heart,

Who come in, warm and singing, to the tent,

And miss me who am gone away, I think,

Forever, though a day; out of their world,