Picture Show (Sassoon collection)/Elegy

by Siegfried Sassoon

For works with similar titles, see Elegy.

ELEGY

(TO ROBERT ROSS)

 

Your dextrous wit will haunt us longWounding our grief with yesterday.Your laughter is a broken song;And death has found you, kind and gay.

We may forget those transient thingsThat made your charm and our delight:But loyal love has deathless wingsThat rise and triumph out of night.

So, in the days to come, your nameShall be as music that ascendsWhen honour turns a heart from shame...O heart of hearts!...O friend of friends!