To give life you must take life, br and as our grief falls flat and hollow br upon the billion-blooded sea br I pass upon serious inward-breaking shoals rimmed br with white-legged, white-bellied rotting creatures br lengthily dead and rioting against surrounding scenes. br Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow br did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be br young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. br I hated you when it would have taken less courage br to love.