Let me live out my years in heat of blood
Let me die drunk with the dreamer’s wine
Let me not see this soul-house built of mud
Go toppling to the dust a vacant shrine
Let me go quickly like a candlelight
Snuffed out just at the hey-day of its glow
Give me high noon...... then let it be night
Thus I would go
And grant me, when I face the grisly thing
One haughty cry to pierce the grey perhaps
Oh let me be a tune-swept fiddle string
That feels the master melody.....
And snaps.