An End

Love, strong as Death, is dead.Come, let us make his bedAmong the dying flowers:A green turf at his head;And a stone at his feet,Whereupon we may sitIn the quiet evening hours.

He was born in the Spring,And died before the harvesting:On the last warm summer dayHe left us; he would not stayFor Autumn twilight cold and grey.Sit we by his grave, and singHe is gone away.

To few chords and sad and lowSing we so:Be our eyes fixed on the grassShadow-veiled as the years pass,While we think of all that wasIn the long ago.