We did not wish anything to happen. We understood the private catastrophe, The personal loss, the general misery, Living and partly living;

You think me reckless, desperate and mad. You argue by results, as this world does, To settle if an act be good or bad. You defer to the fact. For every life a…

In life there is not time to grieve long But this, this is out of life, this is out of time, An instant eternity of evil and wrong.

You would bar the door Against the lion, the leopard, the wolf or the boar, Why not more Against beasts with the souls of damned men, against men Who would dam…