PARTNERS in silence, mates in noteless doom, Peers in oblivion's commonalty merged; Unto like deeds by differing mandates urged, And equalled in the unrespective tomb; Leal or perfidious, cruel or ruthful, whom Precipitate fate hath of your frailties purged; Whom duly the impartial winds have dirged, In autumn or the glorying vernal bloom: Already is your strife become as nought; Idle the bullet's flight, the bayonet's thrust, The senseless cannon's dull, unmeaning word; Idle your feud; and all for which ye fought To this arbitrament of loam referred, And cold adjudication of the dust. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PASSING AWAY by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 46. AL-WASI'H by EDWIN ARNOLD STANZAS SELECTED FROM THE PAINS OR MEMORY; A FRAGMENT by BERNARD BARTON THE LAND OF THE GIANTS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE BIRD-BOY by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD |