The sun is lying on the garden-wall, <br />The full red rose is sweetening all the air, <br />The day is happier than a dream most fair; <br />The evening weaves afar a wide-spread pall, <br />And lo! sun, day, and rose, no longer there! <br /> <br />I have a lover now my life is young, <br />I have a love to keep this many a day; <br />My heart will hold it when my life is gray, <br />My love will last although my heart be wrung. <br />My life, my heart, my love shall fade away! <br /> <br />O lover loved, the day has only gone! <br />In death or life, our love can only go; <br />Never forgotten is the joy we know, <br />We follow memory when life is done: <br />No wave is lost in all the tides that flow.<br /><br />Rose Hawthorne Lathrop<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/broken-waves/
