Escape me? <br />Never-- <br />Beloved! <br />While I am I, and you are you, <br />So long as the world contains us both, <br />Me the loving and you the loth <br />While the one eludes, must the other pursue. <br />My life is a fault at last, I fear: <br />It seems too much like a fate, indeed! <br />Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed. <br />But what if I fail of my purpose here? <br />It is but to keep the nerves at strain, <br />To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, <br />And, baffled, get up and begin again,-- <br />So the Chase takes up one's life ' that's all. <br />While, look but once from your farthest bound <br />At me so deep in the dust and dark, <br />No sooner the old hope goes to ground <br />Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark, <br />I shape me-- <br />Ever <br />Removed!<br /><br />Robert Browning<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/life-in-a-love-2/
