AH! dear one, we were young so long, <br />It seemed that youth would never go, <br />For skies and trees were ever in song <br />And water in singing flow <br />In the days we never again shall know. <br />Alas, so long! <br />Ah! then was it all Spring weather? <br />Nay, but we were young and together. <br />Ah! dear one, I've been old so long, <br />It seems that age is loth to part, <br />Though days and years have never a song, <br />And oh! have they still the art <br />That warmed the pulses of heart to heart? <br />Alas, so long! <br />Ah! then was it all Spring weather? <br />Nay, but we were young and together. <br />Ah! dear one, you've been dead so long,— <br />How long until we meet again, <br />Where hours may never lose their song <br />Nor flowers forget the rain <br />In glad noonlight that never shall wane? <br />Alas, so long! <br />Ah! shall it be then Spring weather, <br />And ah! shall we be young together?<br /><br />Dante Gabriel Rossetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alas-so-long/
