''THEY ARE NOT LONG'' (Vitae Summa Brevis)

  
        HEY are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
        Love and desire and hate:
        I think they have no portion in us after
        We pass the gate.
        
        They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
        Out of a misty dream
        Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
        Within a dream.


Ernest Dowson

By  'An Anthology of Modern Verse'.
 Ed. A. Methuen. London: Methuen & Co., 1921.