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: Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks was an English civil servant and philosopher who has been described as 'one of the founders of the post-war world'.
