Beauty and joy—the bread and wine and all—

We have foresworn; our noisy hearts forget;

We stray and on strange altars cry and call ...

Ah, patient gods, be patient with us yet,

And Pan, pipe on, pipe on, till we shall rise,

And follow, and be happy, and be wise.

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THE HUNTED

There is no rest for them, even in Death:

As life had harried them from lair to lair,

Still with unquiet eyes and furtive breath,

They haunt the secret by-ways of the air.

They know Earth's outer regions like a street,

And on pale ships that make no port of call,

They pass in silence when they chance to meet,

Saying no names, telling no tales at all.

Yet, on November nights of wind and storm,

Shivered and driven from their ghostly shores,

They peer in lighted windows glowing warm,

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