Did you never know, long ago, how much you loved me -- <br />That your love would never lessen and never go? <br />You were young then, proud and fresh-hearted, <br />You were too young to know. <br /> <br />Fate is a wind, and red leaves fly before it <br />Far apart, far away in the gusty time of year -- <br />Seldom we meet now, but when I hear you speaking, <br />I know your secret, my dear, my dear.<br /><br />Sara Teasdale<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/did-you-never-know/