It was near evening, the room was cold Half dark; Uncle Ben`s brass bullet-mould And powder-horn and Major Bogan`s face Above the fire in the half-light plainly said: There`s naught to kill but the animated dead. Horn nor mould nor major follows the chase. Being cold I urged Lytle to the fire In the blank twilight with not much left untold By two old friends when neither`s a great liar. We sat down evenly in the smoky chill. There`s precious little to say between day and dark, Perhaps a few words on the implacable will Of time sailing like a magic barque Or something as fine for the amenities, Till dusk seals the window, the fire grows bright, And the wind saws the hill with a swarm of bees. Now meditating a little on the firelight We heard the darkness grapple with the night And give an old man`s valedictory wheeze From his westward breast between his polar jaws; Then Lytle asked: Who are the dead? Who are the living and the dead? And nothing more was said. So I, leaving Lytle to that dream, Decided what it is in time that gnaws The ageing fury of a mountain stream When suddenly as an ignorant mind will do I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead? Then Lytle turned with an oath-By God it`s true!SourceThe script ran 0.001 seconds.
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