The Explanation
Rudyard Kipling
1865 to 1936
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Love and Death once ceased their strife
At the of Man's Life.
Called for wine, and threw — alas! —
Each his quiver on the grass.
When the was o'er they found
Mingled arrows strewed the ground.
they gathered then
Each the loves and lives of men.
Ah, the fateful dawn deceived!
Mingled arrows each one sheaved;
Death's dread armoury was stored
With the shafts he abhorred;
Love's light quiver groaned beneath
Venom-headed darts of Death.
Thus it was they wrought our woe
At the long ago.
Tell me, do our masters know,
Loosing as they fly,
Old men love while young men die?
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