Fortitude

 Time, the Jester, jeers at you;
Your life's a fleeting breath;
Your birthday's flimsy I.
O.
U.

To that old devil, Death.

And though to glory you attain,
Or be to beauty born,
Your pomp and vanity are vain:
Time ticks you off with scorn.


Time, the Cynic, sneers at you,
And stays you in your stride;
He flouts the daring deeds you do,
And pillories your pride.

The triumph of your yesterday
He pages with the Past;
He taunts you with the grave's decay
And calls the score at last.


All this I now, yet what care I!
Despite his dusty word,
I hold my tattered banner high,
And swing my broken sword.

In blackest night I glimpse a gleam,
And nurse a faith sublime,
To do, to dare, to hope, to dream,
to fight you, Foeman Time;
Yea, in the dark, a deathless beam
To smite you, Tyrant Time.

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