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When All Is Said

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When all is said     And all is done     Beneath the Sun,     And Man lies dead;     When all the earth     Is a cold grave,     And no more brave     Bright things have birth;     When cooling sun     And stone-cold world,     Together hurled,     Flame up as one,     O Sons of Men,     When all is flame,     What of your fame     And splendour then?     When all is fire     And flaming air,     What of your rare     And high desire     To turn the clod     To a thing divine,     The earth a shrine,     And Man the God?

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