The Explanation
Rudyard Kipling
1865 to 1936
Track 1
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Tell me, do our masters know,
Each the loves and lives of men.
Death's dread armoury was stored
At the Tavern long ago.
At the Tavern of Man's Life.
Each his quiver on the grass.
Mingled arrows each one sheaved;
Called for wine, and threw — alas! —
Thus it was they wrought our woe
Hastily they gathered then
Old men love while young men die?
Ah, the fateful dawn deceived!
Love and Death once ceased their strife
Mingled arrows strewed the ground.
Loosing blindly as they fly,
Venom-headed darts of Death.
With the shafts he most abhorred;
When the bout was o'er they found
Love's light quiver groaned beneath
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