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: Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot, the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars, was a French politician, engineer, freemason and mathematician.
