Dost thou remember ever, for my sake, <br />When we two rowed upon the rock-bound lake? <br />How the wind-fretted waters blew their spray <br />About our brows like blossom-falls of May <br />One memorable day? <br /> <br />Dost thou remember the glad mouth that cried-- <br />"Were it not sweet to die now side by side, <br />To lie together tangled in the deep <br />Close as the heart-beat to the heart--so keep <br />The everlasting sleep?" <br /> <br />Dost thou remember? Ah, such death as this <br />Had set the seal upon my heart's young bliss! <br />But, wrenched asunder, severed and apart, <br />Life knew a deadlier death: the blighting smart <br />Which only kills the heart.<br /><br />Mathilde Blind<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dost-thou-remember-ever/
