Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 3 — Unanswered

UNANSWERED

How long ago it is since we went Maying!

Since she and I went Maying long ago!

The years have left my forehead lined, I know, Have thinned my hair around the temples graying.

Ah, time will change us: yea, I hear it saying-- “She, too, grows old: the face of rose and snow Has lost its freshness: in the hair’s brown glow Some strands of silver sadly, too, are straying.

The form you knew, whose beauty so enspelled, Has lost the litheness of its loveliness: And all the gladness that her blue eyes held Tears and the world have hardened with distress.

”-- “True!

true!

” I answer, “O ye years that part!

These things are changed--but is her heart, her heart?

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