ESTRANGED.

“It is good-bye,” she said; “the world is wide,

There's space for you and me to walk apart.

Though we have walked together side by side,

My thoughts all yours, my resting-place your heart,

We now will go our different ways. Forget

The happy past. I would not have you keep

One thought of me. Ah, yes, my eyes are wet;

My love is great, my grief must needs be deep.

“Yet I have strength to look at you, and say:

Forget it all, forget our souls were stirred,

Forget the sweetness of each dear, dead day,

The warm, impassioned kiss, the tender word,

The clinging handclasp, and the love-filled eyes —

Forget all these; but, when we walk apart

Remember this, though wilful and unwise,

No word of mine did ever hurt your heart.”