Classic Poem

Down to centuries of dark,
After one short spell of light,
Sink in Time black flowers and white.
For with never why nor whether
Good and bad go down together.

Ah, how lightly human steps
Tread the ages! Down they glide:
Hurrying draperies flash and hide.
Desperate fingers rude or clever
Clutch the globe and slip forever.

Stern Tiberius, bloody-mantled,
Jeffreys, England's curse and snare,
Lovely Lamballe, Lacenaire,—
Dropped as from a broken tether.
Good and bad go down together.