TO EDITH

Do you remember how we walked that night

In early spring?

And how we found a new and sweet delight

In everything?

Do you remember how the air was filled

With mist and moonlight — how our hearts were thrilled —

And seemed to sing?

What if these walls shut out the world for me

And heaven too,

There still lives fragrant in my memory

The thought of you.

And out there now with life's high dome above you

If you but knew how very much I love you —

If you but knew....