Love in Hades by Robert Crawford

Lyrics

I saw Love pass with Charon down The pale infernal tide To visit in the starless town All who for him had died The gay God and the old Ghost came Slow to that sleepy shore And a dead passion burned like flame Before each true-love's door! Into this place and that he stept: The eyes still held their tears Though some had their strange sorrow kept More than ten thousand years He saw the old and young who went Devoid of life, yet who Though all their joys on earth were spent Were to their dream-loves true He saw all who had worshipped him Before thought's light withdrew Until the ages seemed to swim Round him there dying too! And he could feel his faint heart beat A ghostly tune with theirs As he, too, might cease to compete With the decaying years Ay! though a God, he went aghast From the mysterious shore And Charon smiled when he at last Touched time with him once more