Our dead we mourn, though we very well know, <br />That but Vanity they leave ere they go. <br />Reflection upon life's hard course shall teach <br />‘Tis one to die as be slain by a foe.<br /><br />Abu at-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/our-dead-we-mourn/
