Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell <br />No God, no demon of severe response <br />Deigns to reply from heaven or from hell <br />Then to my human heart I turn at once: <br />Heart, thou and I are here, sad and alone, <br />Say, why did I laugh? O mortal pain! <br />O darkness! darkness! Forever must I moan <br />To question heaven and hell and heart in vain? <br />Why did I laugh? I know this being's lease <br />My fancy to it's utmost blisses spreads <br />Yet would I on this very midnight cease <br />And all the world's gaudy ensigns see in shreds <br />Verse, fame and beauty are intense indeed <br />But death intenser, death is life's high meed.<br /><br />John Keats<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/why-did-i-laugh-tonight-no-voice-will-tell/
