Did you hear the old man say, to the child, as he wept?
“Why art thou with grief so sold,
when thou art young, and the grave is for the old?”
The child may not have known the Jewels of England,
nor what lies beyond the Mighty Two.
But with tears in eyes, and truth in a lie,
in foolish wisdom, did he reply.
Did you hear the child say, to the old man, as he wondered:
\"Why, in grief, am I so deep?
For who told thee that I shan’t sleep?
Sure, the grave of dust may be for thee—
but the grave of time shall be for me.”