William Butler Yeats: from Mohini Chatterjee

'Old lovers yet may have 
All that time denied - 
Grave is heaped on grave 
That they be satisfied - 
Over the blackened earth 
The old troops parade, 
Birth is heaped on Birth 
That such cannonade 
May thunder time away, 
Birth-hour and death-hour meet, 
Or, as great sages say, 
Men dance on deathless feet.'