When the last song is sung, and the last spark

Of light dies out forever, and the dark,

The voiceless dark eternal shrouds the earth;

When the last cries of pain and shouts of mirth

Sink in the desolate silences of space;

Where then shall flower the beauty of your face,

O Love the laughing, Youth the rose-in-hand,

In what unknown and undiscovered land

Shall flower then the beauty of your face?

I know not but I know that all returns