Now slowly perishing
Down to the leafless core,
Ye die; no lovely thing;
A heart, and nothing more.
IV
If we could think that death
As surely as we dream,
To us who dwell beneath
The summit of supreme
Prospective—Love and Peace—
Now slowly perishing
Down to the leafless core,
Ye die; no lovely thing;
A heart, and nothing more.
IV
If we could think that death
As surely as we dream,
To us who dwell beneath
The summit of supreme
Prospective—Love and Peace—