for ever

in a moment
you will hold my hand and smile
we shall meet again some day!—
and then you will turn
and bear that thought away
to some vague place to lapse forgotten
leaving only dusk
that gathers now for the long night within
where the wavering rays of love's sad setting
die in abandonment

in a moment
you will hold my hand and smile
we shall meet again some day.!—
and then you will be gone
you and I and all this trembling
and this thinking
will whirl away at that moment
in the endless dance of time
never again together
never never

in a moment
you will hold my hand
we shall meet again some day!—
confident we smile goodbye
for
ever

—I.M.L.