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