SO soon asleep! Now must the coming years <br />Weep ignorantly their loss they cannot know, <br />And life miss ever what has never been <br />We weep to-day, let theirs be sadder tears <br />Who have not seen thee near as we have seen, <br />Who shall but learn a hope died long ago. <br />Alas for flowers untimely winds have broken, <br />That should have scattered seed of following flowers! <br />Alas for ruin of unbuilded towers! <br />Alas for ripening words that die unspoken! <br />But let them weep with sadder tears than ours <br />Who shall but learn a hope died long ago, <br />A world's hope long ago.<br /><br />Augusta Davies Webster<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ni-chan-s-dirge-for-yen-oey/
