| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Death and the Jester | | By Ernest Rhys |
| | | BLACK crow, art thou come | |
| For Dagonet’s wit? | |
| It is quick as the light | |
| Or the dragon-fly’s dart. | |
| It is born in a smile, | 5 |
| It is bred in the heart, | |
| It is light, it is laughter. | |
| It took life when Eve laughed | |
| At the lion-cub’s play; | |
| It slept then awhile, | 10 |
| When her sorrow came after | |
| With the son of the snake. | |
| Eve’s joy was my mother, | |
| Not Eve’s sorrow; | |
| And the bird is my brother | 15 |
| That sings as he may. | |
| In the close of my day, | |
| Lies curl’d up the morrow | |
| Like the fox in his bed. | |
| And my wit, if I die, | 20 |
| Yet shall wake and shall fly— | |
| Take music and live | |
| When Dagonet’s dead. | | | | |
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