Edith Nesbit

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.