| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 42. The Symbol |
| | | By James Hebblethwaite |
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| THUS pass the glories of the world! | |
| He lies beneath the pall’s white folds: | |
| His sword is sheathed, his pennon furled, | |
| Him silence holds. | |
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| The pilgrim staff, the cockle shell, | 5 |
| The crown, the sceptre of his pride, | |
| The simple flower from forest dell, | |
| Heap at his side. | |
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| And add thereto the wild-heart lute | |
| The voice of love and twilight song; | 10 |
| Those passioned strings though he is mute | |
| Remember long. | |
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| And move not thence his evening book, | |
| The sifted grains of calm and storm; | |
| And bow before that dust-strewn nook | 15 |
| And silent form. | |
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| To-morrow hath no hope for him, | |
| No clasp of friend, no grip of foe: | |
| Remember, love, with eyes tear-dim, | |
| We too must go. | 20 |
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