Roi est Mort, Le! Vive le Roi!
" THE king is dead! Long live the king! " One breath
For knell and coronation: that is brave!
Why should we linger, mourning, at the grave
Of an old creed outgrown, when some " God saith "
Is calling us to a diviner faith?
Or stay, in sorrow's penitential wave
The ashes of some darling sin to lave,
Or selfish passion that has died the death?
Nay, nay, — the king is dead! long live the king!
The king of loftier trust and larger hope
And better purposes and purer aims.
Ring, O my soul, glad acclamations ring
From all your happy towers, till cope to cope
" Long live the king! long live the king! " proclaims.
For knell and coronation: that is brave!
Why should we linger, mourning, at the grave
Of an old creed outgrown, when some " God saith "
Is calling us to a diviner faith?
Or stay, in sorrow's penitential wave
The ashes of some darling sin to lave,
Or selfish passion that has died the death?
Nay, nay, — the king is dead! long live the king!
The king of loftier trust and larger hope
And better purposes and purer aims.
Ring, O my soul, glad acclamations ring
From all your happy towers, till cope to cope
" Long live the king! long live the king! " proclaims.
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