Gone Golden

Gold on ancient atoll? Gone be prospector's hope! Gore, doth coat the brazen bull? Golem, get the rope? Best for those politest men? Better think again. Bone a-broken, dive in den? Flicker on the fen... Torn like life tormented? Break upon, O wave. How the gods lamented! O shroud hung on the grave! Yellow as a predator's eye? Dun the desert doubt. Riddles, rivers, thy reply? Time will sort it out. Plight of all the human race? Leaving like a trace. O defeated, thy disgrace! Cholera, catch case! Syllable, O sylvan! Each to preserve a life! Dreams once started, thus began! Razor's edge or knife! Wail, O watching widows? We'd really rather not. Soul a-sold, what doth ye owes? Death, be but a thought!