Gone are the aching want, the unceasing fret, 
Mad flight and moaning over battered wings, 
And self-contempt whose secret penance wrings 
Out of the writhing soul her bloody sweat. 
But use has never taught me to forget 
The glory that the common daylight flings; 
Still in my heart the rebel tocsin rings, 
And still is love my glowing amulet. 
Calm and contented, yet with heart afire 
To fight for ever for the sake of strife, 
I hold the future and the past in fee. 
The time to come brings riper fruit for me 
Who stretch my hands with passionate desire 
And welcome for the green and grey of life.