Day After Wedding Brunch Wording

A Death Song.
A Death Song, William Morris (1834-1896)

What's that coming from the west destroying everything? What
Who are these who leave firm and lost?
We bring the message that the rich have sent
folding down the condemned to wake up and know.
No one, not even one or a thousand must die,
But each and every one if you darken the day.

We asked for the life of hard work,
We were ordered to await the time for our bread;
We long to express our humble thoughts,
returned without words, bringing out our dead.
No one, not even one or a thousand must die,
But each and every one if you darken the day.

They do not learn, they have no ears to listen.
They hide their faces in the eyes of fate; Its bright rooms
hide the darkening sky.
But look at this dead man knocking at the doors!
No one, not even one or a thousand must die,
But each and every one if you darken the day.

Here is the signal that will break our prison;
Amidst the storm he won the rest inmate;
But at dawn the sun came through the clouds
Bringing on a working day filled with hope.
No one, not even one or a thousand must die,
But each and every one if you darken the day.

William Morris (1834-1896)