A life so fair, so pure of earthlier leaven,
⁠That none hath won through higher and harder ways
The deathless life of death which earth calls heaven;
⁠Heaven, and the light of love on earth, and praise
⁠Of silent memory through subsiding days
Wherein the light subsides not whence the past
Feeds full with life the future. Time holds fast
Their names whom faith forgets not, first and last.

Forget? The dark forgets not dawn, nor we
⁠The suns that sink to rise again, and shine
Lords of live years and ages. Earth and sea
⁠Forget not heaven that makes them seem divine,
⁠Though night put out their fires and bid their shrine
Be dark and pale as storm and twilight. Day,
Not night, is everlasting: life's full sway
Bids death bow down as dead, and pass away.