Red revels, and the seas are darkening

Round all the Asian shores, while one by one

Depart the sweets of Spring.

O you whom yet we mourn, for whom the song

Of victory and sorrow dies not away,

Well is it with you if beyond the grey

Islands of sleep that you are met among

No world-born memories win. May there be none!

We have not remembered long.

Yet if beyond the sunset's golden choir,