Lady fair, have we not met <br />In our lives elsewhere ? <br />Darkling in my mind to-night <br />Faint fair faces dare <br />Memory's old unfaithfulness <br />To what was true and fair. <br />Long of memory is Regret, <br />But what Regret has taken flight <br />Through my memory's silences ? <br />Lo ! I turn it to the light. <br />'Twas but a pleasure in distress, <br />Too faint and far off for redress. <br />But some light glancing in your hair <br />And in the liquid of your eyes <br />Seem to murmur old good-byes <br />In our lives elsewhere. <br />Have we not met. Lady fair ?<br /><br />Francis Ledwidge<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lady-fair-2/
