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Poem by William Ernest Henley


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We shall surely die:
Must we needs grow old?
Grow old and cold,
And we know not why?

O, the By-and-By,
And the tale that’s told!
We shall surely die:
Must we needs grow old?

Grow old and sigh,
Grudge and withhold,
Resent and scold?…
Not you and I?
We shall surely die! 



William Ernest Henley


William Ernest Henley's other poems:
  1. In Hospital. 18. Children: Private Ward
  2. In Hospital. 8. Staff-Nurse: Old Style
  3. Echoes. 27. She Sauntered by the Swinging Seas
  4. Beside the Idle Summer Sea
  5. Rhymes and Rhythms. 20. The Shadow of Dawn


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