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The Spike or Victoria College Review October 1930

A Lovers' Dialogue

A Lovers' Dialogue

Dark and lonely lies the park beneath its robe of snow,
And sees two lovers' figures pass with paces slow.
Death fills the eyes and rottenness the lips once dear,
And their whispered words fall soft upon the frozen air.
Dark and lonely lies the park beneath its robe of snow,
And hears two lovers' voices speak of long ago.
"Dost thou remember all our love of happier days?"
"Why should I love recall—I lost in Death's cold ways?
"Know'st thou the sweet, slow sound my name was long ago?
In dreams do'st thou behold my soul?"—"It is not so."
"Ah! how swiftly, madly, those our days of rapture lied,
When lips touched lips in burning kiss."—"So it is said."
"How blue the heavens then; our lovers' hopes how high!"
"'Long since has hope ta'en.. .. .. .flight towards a frozen sky".
And so they walked amidst wild oats of long ago
And Night alone gave ear to all their whispered woe.

C. G. Watson.