Promise me no promises, <br />So will I not promise you: <br />Keep we both our liberties, <br />Never false and never true: <br />Let us hold the die uncast, <br />Free to come as free to go: <br />For I cannot know your past, <br />And of mine what can you know? <br /> <br />You, so warm, may once have been <br />Warmer towards another one: <br />I, so cold, may once have seen <br />Sunlight, once have felt the sun: <br />Who shall show us if it was <br />Thus indeed in time of old? <br />Fades the image from the glass, <br />And the fortune is not told. <br /> <br />If you promised, you might grieve <br />For lost liberty again: <br />If I promised, I believe <br />I should fret to break the chain. <br />Let us be the friends we were, <br />Nothing more but nothing less: <br />Many thrive on frugal fare <br />Who would perish of excess.<br /><br />Christina Georgina Rossetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/promises-like-pie-crust/
