WE laid him to rest with tenderness; <br />Homeward we turned in the twilight's gold; <br />We thought in ourselves with dumb distress— <br />All the story of earth is told. <br /> <br /> <br />A beautiful word at the last was said: <br />A great deep heart like the hearts of old <br />Went forth; and the speaker had lost the thread, <br />Or all the story of earth was told. <br /> <br /> <br />The dust hung over the pale dry ways <br />Dizzily fired with the twilight's gold, <br />And a bitter remembrance blew in each face <br />How all the story of earth was told.<br /><br />George William Russell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-last-hero-5/
