The starry train
E. Bacon
Here are the skies, the planets seven
And all the starry train;
Content you with the mimic heaven,
And on the earth remain.
Ask me no more, for fear I should reply;
Others have held their tongues, and so can I;
Hundreds have died, and told no tale before:
Ask me no more, for fear I should reply --
How one was true and one was clean of stain
And one was braver than the heavens are high,
And one was fond of me; and all are slain.
Ask me no more, for fear I should reply.