I Go By Ways of Rust and Flame
By: Byron Herbert Reece
I go by ways of rust and flame
Beneath the bent and lonely sky
Behind me on the ways I came
I see the hedges lying bare
But neither question nor reply
A solitary thing am I
Upon the roads of rust and flame
That thin at sunset to the air
I call upon no word nor name
And neither question nor reply
But walk alone as all men must
Upon the roads of flame and rust