From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever,
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Bio: Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld was a Scottish Chaucerian poet or makar. His Eneados, a translation of Virgil's Aeneid, was the first complete rendering of any major work of classical antiquity into English.
