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: Shushā Guppy, née Shamsi Assār (D, was a writer, editor and, under the name of "Shusha", a singer of Persian and Western folk songs. She had lived in London since the early 1960s.
