• They tell you that Death ’s at the turn of the road,
      That under the shade of a cypress you ’ll find him,
    And, struggling on wearily, lashed by the goad
      Of pain, you will enter the black mist behind him.

    I can walk with you up to the ridge of the hill,
      And we ’ll talk of the way we have come through the valley;
    Down below there a bird...

  • To a Friend Dying
    THEY tell you that Death ’s at the turn of the road,
      That under the shade of a cypress you ’ll find him,
    And, struggling on wearily, lashed by the goad
      Of pain, you will enter the black mist behind him.

    I can walk with you up to the ridge of the hill,
      And we ’ll talk of the way we have come through the valley;
    ...