Between us now and here - <br /> Two thrown together <br />Who are not wont to wear <br /> Life's flushest feather - <br />Who see the scenes slide past, <br />The daytimes dimming fast, <br />Let there be truth at last, <br /> Even if despair. <br /> <br />So thoroughly and long <br /> Have you now known me, <br />So real in faith and strong <br /> Have I now shown me, <br />That nothing needs disguise <br />Further in any wise, <br />Or asks or justifies <br /> A guarded tongue. <br /> <br />Face unto face, then, say, <br /> Eyes mine own meeting, <br />Is your heart far away, <br /> Or with mine beating? <br />When false things are brought low, <br />And swift things have grown slow, <br />Feigning like froth shall go, <br /> Faith be for aye.<br /><br />Thomas Hardy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/between-us-now/
