Villanelle

Where’s the use of sighing?
Sorrow as you may,
Time is always flying-

Flying!-and defying
Men to say him nay...
Where’s the use of sighing?

Look! To-day is dying
After yesterday.
Time is always flying.

Flying—and when crying
Cannot make him stay,
Where’s the use of sighing?

Men with by-and-bying,
Fritter life away.
Time is always flying,

Flying!—O, from prying
Cease, and go to play.
Where’s the use of sighing,
“Time is always flying?”

W. E. Henley.