“Oh Ye, All Ye That Walk in Willowwood” <br /> <br />Two gaz’d into a pool, he gaz’d and she, <br />Not hand in hand, yet heart in heart, I think, <br />Pale and reluctant on the water’s brink <br />AS on the brink of parting which must be. <br />Each eyed the other’s aspect, she and he, <br />Each felt one hungering heart leap up and sink, <br />Each tasted bitterness which both must drink, <br />There on the brink of life’s dividing sea. <br />Lilies upon the surface, deep below <br />Two wistful faces craving each for each, <br />Resolute and reluctant without speech:— <br />A sudden ripple made the faces flow <br />One moment join’d, to vanish out of reach: <br />So these hearts join’d, and ah! were parted so.<br /><br />Christina Georgina Rossetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-echo-from-willowood/
