POEM: A PARTING

So good-bye!

This is where we end it, you and I.

Life's to live, you know, and death's to die;

So good-bye!

I was yours

For the love in life that loves while life endures,

For the earth-path that the Heaven-flight ensures

I was yours.

You were mine

For the moment that a garland takes to twine,

For the human hour that sorcery shews divine

You were mine.

All is over.

You and I no more are love and lover;

Nought's to seek now, gain, attain, discover.

All is over.