It came with the threat of a waning moon <br />And the wail of an ebbing tide, <br />But many a woman has lived for less, <br />And many a man has died; <br />For life upon life took hold and passed, <br />Strong in a fate set free, <br />Out of the deep into the dark <br />On for the years to be. <br /> <br />Between the gloom of a waning moon <br />And the song of an ebbing tide, <br />Chance upon chance of love and death <br />Took wing for the world so wide. <br />O, leaf out of leaf is the way of the land, <br />Wave out of wave of the sea <br />And who shall reckon what lives may live <br />In the life that we bade to be?<br /><br />William Ernest Henley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-came-with-the-threat-of-a-waning-moon/
