To a Lost Love
 
I seek no more to bridge the gulf that lies
   Betwixt our separate ways;
   For vainly my heart prays,
Hope droops her head and dies;
I see the sad, tired answer in your eyes.
 
I did not heed, and yet the stars were clear;
   Dreaming that love could mate
   Lives grown so separate;—
But at the best, my dear,
I see we should not have been very near.
 
I knew the end before the end was nigh:
   The stars have grown so plain;
   Vainly I sigh, in vain
For things that come to some,
But unto you and me will never come.


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Created November 13, 2002; not revised.