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