Envoy by Francis Thompson
Thompson read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\n\n---------------------------------------------\n\nEnvoy\nby Francis Thompson\n\nGo, songs, for ended is our brief, sweet play;\nGo, children of swift joy and tardy sorrow:\nAnd some are sung, and that was yesterday,\nAnd some unsung, and that may be to-morrow.\n\nGo forth; and if it be o'er stony way,\nOld joy can lend what newer grief must borrow:\nAnd it was sweet, and that was yesterday,\nAnd sweet is sweet, though purchas-ed with sorrow.\n\nGo, songs, and come not back from your far way:\nAnd if men ask you why ye smile and sorrow,\nTell them ye grieve, for your hearts know To-day,\nTell them ye smile, for your eyes know To-morrow.