I know not, I,
What the men together say, How lovers, lovers die
And youth passes away.
Cannot understand
Love that mortal bears For native, native land
— All lands are theirs.
Why at grave they grieve
For one voice and face,
And not, and not receive Another in its place.
I, above the cone
Of the circling night Flying, never have known More or lesser light.
Sorrow it is they call
This cup: whence my lip, Woe's me, never in all
My endless days must sip.
— C. S. LEWIS