<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510969" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Explanation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love and Death once ceased their strife<br>At the Tavern of Man's Life.<br>Called for wine, and threw -- alas! --<br>Each his quiver on the grass.<br>When the bout was o'er they found<br>Mingled arrows strewed the ground.<br>Hastily they gathered then<br>Each the loves and lives of men.<br>Ah, the fateful dawn deceived!<br>Mingled arrows each one sheaved;<br>Death's dread armoury was stored<br>With the shafts he most abhorred;<br>Love's light quiver groaned beneath<br>Venom-headed darts of Death.<br> <br>Thus it was they wrought our woe<br>At the Tavern long ago.<br>Tell me, do our masters know,<br>Loosing blindly as they fly,<br>Old men love while young men die?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=510969" data-title="The Explanation de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Love and Death once ceased their strife At the Tavern of Man's Life. Called for wine, and threw -- alas! -- Each his quiver on the grass. When the bout was o'er they found Mingled arrows strewed the ground. Hastily they gathered then Each the love..."></div> </div> </div>

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