Classic Poem

PREDICAMENTS

" I F the gods ruin send? " —
" Make that thy bride and friend. "

" If the gods cheat? " — " They say
The one true word alway. "

" If for some loss I pine? "
" — The past is theirs, yet thine. "

" If I sue not? " — " Vain cares!
The morrow's thine, not theirs. "

THE CO-ETERNAL

" Is it thou, silly heart,
Not prone on thy pallet, but grieving apart? "
— " Natal Star, even so. "
" I miss thee to-night, while thou smoulderest low. "
— " Live in beauty! but I
For bloodshed of spirit, here dwindle and die. "

" Are we two not the same,
By law everlasting one mystical flame?
Aloft if I burn,
Every ray of my light be thy stair of return:
Up, up! to our lot
Where warfare and time and the body are not. "