A Mourner’s song

Death it seems is peace alone

Life's only assured thing 

The sweetest answer yet to ring

While I stand in darkness, all alone

Yet Depravity cannot but hide

Truth in all its glory!

Life and death combined in one 

I hasten not the story

For what is death without life 

Never more true a riddle 

Death a sweet, mourner's song

And life, a lively fiddle 

Which is more worthy? 

I shall never know 

How might I keep one

And leave the other go? 

So choose I not between the two 

But pursue with all my might 

The one in which I find myself 

A true and noble fight