DOI article:
Symons, Arthur: Credo
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.27812#0052
By Arthur Symons
r^ACH, in himself his hour to be and cease
[ . Endures alone, yet few there be who dare
Sole with himself his single burden bear,
AH the long day until the night's release.
Yet, ere the night fall, and the shadows close,
This labour of himself is each man's lot ;
All a man hath, yet living, is forgot,
Himself he leaves behind him when he goes.
If he have any valiancy within,
If he have made his life his very own,
If he have loved and laboured, and have known
A strenuous virtue, and the joy of sin ;
Then, being dead, he has not lived in vain,
For he has saved what most desire to lose,
And he has chosen what the few must choose,
Since life, once lived, returns no more again.
r^ACH, in himself his hour to be and cease
[ . Endures alone, yet few there be who dare
Sole with himself his single burden bear,
AH the long day until the night's release.
Yet, ere the night fall, and the shadows close,
This labour of himself is each man's lot ;
All a man hath, yet living, is forgot,
Himself he leaves behind him when he goes.
If he have any valiancy within,
If he have made his life his very own,
If he have loved and laboured, and have known
A strenuous virtue, and the joy of sin ;
Then, being dead, he has not lived in vain,
For he has saved what most desire to lose,
And he has chosen what the few must choose,
Since life, once lived, returns no more again.