Love, when the present is become the past, <br />And dust has covered all that now is new, <br />When many a fame has faded out of view, <br />And many a later fame is fading fast - <br /> <br />If then these songs of mine might hope to last, <br />Which sing most sweetly when they sing of you, <br />Though queen and empress wore oblivion's hue, <br />Your loveliness would not be overcast. <br /> <br />Now, while the present stays with you and me, <br />In love's copartnery our hearts combine, <br />Life's loss and gain in equal shares to take. <br />Partners in fame our memories then would be: <br />Your name remembered for my songs; and mine <br />Still unforgotten for your sweetness' sake.<br /><br />Robert Fuller Murray<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/partnership-in-fame/
