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