Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die. Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! I only knew what hunted thought Quickened his step, and why He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye The man had killed the thing he loved And so he had to die. I walked, with other souls in pain, Within another ring, And was wondering if the man had done A great or little thing, When a voice behind me whispered low, " That fellow's got to swing."ĭear Christ! the very prison walls Suddenly seemed to reel, And the sky above my head became Like a casque of scorching steel And, though I was a soul in pain, My pain I could not feel.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky, And at every drifting cloud that went With sails of silver by.
He walked amongst the Trial Men In a suit of shabby grey A cricket cap was on his head, And his step seemed light and gay But I never saw a man who looked So wistfully at the day. He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed.
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