When, soul in soul reflected, We breathed an aethered air, When we neglected All things elsewhere, And left the friendly friendless To keep our love aglow, We deemed it endless...
--We did not know!
When, by mad passion goaded, We planned to hie away, But, unforeboded, The storm-shafts gray So heavily down-pattered That none could forthward go, Our lives seemed shattered...
--We did not know!
When I found you, helpless lying, And you waived my deep misprise, And swore me, dying, In phantom-guise To wing to me when grieving, And touch away my woe, We kissed, believing...
--We did not know!
But though, your powers outreckoning, You hold you dead and dumb, Or scorn my beckoning, And will not come;And I say, "'Twere mood ungainly To store her memory so:"I say it vainly -
I feel and know!
