Just Think!
Just think! some night the stars will gleam
Upon a cold, grey stone,
And trace a name with silver beam,
And lo! ’twill be your own.
That night is speeding on to greet
Your epitaphic rhyme.
Your life is but a little beat
Within the heart of Time.
A little gain, a little pain,
A laugh, lest you may moan;
A little blame, a little fame,
A star-gleam on a stone.
~~
Robert Service (1874-1958)
from Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, 1912
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]
Robert Service biography
Ara Duzian, "Just Think" (Robert Service / Ara Duzian)
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