Poem by George William Russell

The Last Hero

WE laid him to rest with tenderness;
Homeward we turned in the twilight’s gold;
We thought in ourselves with dumb distress—
All the story of earth is told.

A beautiful word at the last was said:
A great deep heart like the hearts of old
Went forth; and the speaker had lost the thread,
Or all the story of earth was told.

The dust hung over the pale dry ways
Dizzily fired with the twilight’s gold,
And a bitter remembrance blew in each face
How all the story of earth was told. 

1. Dusk
2. Kinship
3. A Woman's Voice
4. On a Hillside
5. By the Margin of the Great Deep

Gilbert Chesterton The Last Hero ("The wind blew out from Bergen from the dawning to the day")

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