NO MORE 



Old homes left lonely 'neath a lonely moon, 



Peopled with silent guests each named No More : 

 Familiar faces lost to us, or flown 



Over the River to the Unknown Shore : 

 Things dear, things human, unf orgotten hours : 



Dawn on the peaks, songs in the midnight trees : 

 Eve's brooding breast or noontide's storming 

 showers, 



Fragrance of Summer and the deep drone of bees. 



Say not No More ! Use any words but these ! 



Fool us with phantoms, cheat us and depart — 

 Say not No More! For none of Fate's decrees 



Harsher than this e'er wring man's helpless 

 heart : 

 Death, merciless or kind, our birthright is: 



Not in such melancholy haunting of our door 

 See we life's saddest ghosts: not in this 



Lurks the incomparable pang we call No More ! 



