If truth in hearts that perish <br />Could move the powers on high, <br />I think the love I bear you <br />Should make you not to die. <br /> <br />Sure, sure, if stedfast meaning, <br />If single thought could save, <br />The world might end to-morrow, <br />You should not see the grave. <br /> <br />This long and sure-set liking, <br />This boundless will to please, <br />--Oh, you should live for ever, <br />If there were help in these. <br /> <br />But now, since all is idle, <br />To this lost heart be kind, <br />Ere to a town you journey <br />Where friends are ill to find.<br /><br />Alfred Edward Housman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-truth-in-hearts-that-perish/
