You followers of that happiness
Which sweetly severs your blinkered brain
Who avoid the paths of chaos
And reduce life to a plane
Observe the ones who shun the hearth
And walk out in the rain
Their eyes like headlights blazing
Through the tightening rings of pain
There are no greater heroes than these
Through the deep sea-canyons
Of the ocean of despair
Through the lonely constellations
They are wandering into the rareifying air
There are no greater heroes than these
Look at them in wonder
From your comfort and your ease
For there are no greater heroes than these
When your d**h-flash cracks like thunder
Even then you'll hardly see
When your life-line snaps asunder
You will fall away like leaves
And the years will tread you under
Till you blend into the peat
But take a long last look in wonder
At these others who your pleasures have beaten down
For there are no greater heroes than these