We are on the road – see the City of <br />Immortality glimmering! <br /> <br />In the night dark and cold and frost <br />How glimmers it! <br /> <br />The City of Immortality be not far <br />To-night! <br /> <br />We had not reach this far, my friends, <br />As yet! <br /> <br />For years I guided, I proposed, <br />I toiled. <br /> <br />Now that we are near a strange numbing <br />Tiredness strikes. <br /> <br />Pity that we who proposed who led will <br />Not be those who enter the City. <br /> <br />Let it be so, others will enter glorious <br />Into the City! <br /> <br />The gates of the City barriers shine <br />But wait their opening! <br /> <br />And Death dark-veiled in face <br />Hides stealthy a corner behind <br />The ramparts of the City.<br /><br />Emmanuel George Cefai<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-remains-to-immortality/
