What is this Talk

What is this talk of slayer and of slain? Swords are not sharp to slay nor floods assuage This flaming soul. Mortality and pain Are mere conventions of a mightier stage. As when a hero by his doom pursued Falls like a pillar of the huge world uptorn Shaking the hearts of men and awe-imbued, Silent the audience sits or weeps forlorn, Meanwhile behind the stage the actor sighs Deep-lunged relief, puts off what he has been And talks with friends that waited or from the flies Watches the quiet of the closing scene, Even so the unwounded spirits of the slain Beyond our vision passing live again. Read online:https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2/what-is-this-talk