<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=403191" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Threnody</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O ye who claim to be our loyal friends<br>Come now and build for us a funeral pyre,<br>And lay our emptied bodies on the fire,<br>Pray for our souls, murmur your sad amens;<br>And while the gold and scarlet flame ascends<br>Let he who best can play upon the lyre,<br>Pluck slow regretful notes of deep desire,<br>Sing subtle songs of love that never ends.<br>and when at last the embers growing cold<br>Gather ye up our ashes in an urn<br>Of porphyry, and seek a forest old<br>There underneath some vast and mighty oak<br>choose ye our grave, spread over us a cloak<br>Of woven violets and filmy fern.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Harry+Crosby">Harry Crosby</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=403191" data-title="Threnody de Harry Crosby" data-description="O ye who claim to be our loyal friends Come now and build for us a funeral pyre, And lay our emptied bodies on the fire, Pray for our souls, murmur your sad amens; And while the gold and scarlet flame ascends Let he who best can play upon the lyre..."></div> </div> </div>

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