But He Shall Live Until He Dies

He who laughs shall cry And he who lives shall die. He who walks this life alone Shall disappear when he is gone. He who makes the earth his home And he who makes his heart a poem - The one that does what makes him he, Is a man of life and shall be free. Yet the man who trembles dark with fear Shall never see, nor taste, nor hear What it is that true life brings With every note the songbird sings. A man less known to all life's kiss Shall never live but only wish To touch her tender heart of gold, But to his dreams his soul was sold. He who takes a thousand breaths Shall live the life which he so sets. And so he laughs and so he cries, But he shall live until he dies.