Hallows Eve - Parts XX - XXII

“Yet since that time, we’ve all resigned To carry our last days With neither purpose nor ambition— Our idleness our shame.”

A silence seized the company In thought they all withdrew The seventh then began at length: “What would you have us do?

“Such deeds amassed are of the past And dire, desperate straits It wasn’t choice that called us there, But shared, unlucky fate