Bring the eternal seed to light
"Lie down in the bed of dust;
Bear the fruit that bear you must;
Bring the eternal seed to light,
And morn is all the same at night.
"Rest you so from trouble sore,
Fear the heat o’ the sun no more,
Not the snowing winter wild,
Now you labor not with child.
"Empty vessel, garment cast,
We that wore you long shall last.
-Another night, another day."
So my bones within me say.
Therefore they shall do my will
To-day while I am master still,
And flesh and soul, now both are strong,
Shale hale the sullen slaves along,
Before this fire of sense decay,
This smoke of thought blown clean away,
And leave with ancient night alone
The stedfast and enduring bone."
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) from The Immortal Part
