Once by the sea her lips, laid hushed on mine, <br />Stirred faintly, saying, 'I love thee!' Here, how still! <br />Nor in her eyes is that unchanging thrill <br />As of the starlight, solemn and divine, <br />Death being possessed of them, for if they shine, <br />'T is by a sea that other shadows fill, <br />Where foileth ever her pursuing will <br />The unapproachable horizon line. <br /> <br />Alas! if irretrievably we part . . . <br />The spirit boweth with her weight of fears. <br />Ah! met again within the farther years, <br />Shall I not know thee for the ghost thou art? <br />Or will there be no wonder at the heart <br />And sudden starlight in remembering tears?<br /><br />George Sterling<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/reincarnation-19/
