"How many miles to Babylon?

Threescore and ten.

Can I get there by candle-light?

Yes, and back again."

How many miles of the weary way?

Threescore miles and ten.

Where shall I be at the end of the day?

Yon shall be back again.

You shall prove it all in the lifelong round;

The joy, and the pain and the sinning;

And at candle-light your soul shall be found

Back—at its new beginning.

Down in his grave the old man lies;

In from the earthward wild,

At the open door of Paradise

Enters a little child.