I seek no more to bridge the gulf that lies <br />Betwixt our separate ways; <br />For vainly my heart prays, <br />Hope droops her head and dies; <br />I see the sad, tired answer in your eyes. <br /> <br />I did not heed, and yet the stars were clear; <br />Dreaming that love could mate <br />Lives grown so separate;-- <br />But at the best, my dear, <br />I see we should not have been very near. <br /> <br />I knew the end before the end was nigh: <br />The stars have grown so plain; <br />Vainly I sigh, in vain <br />For things that come to some, <br />But unto you and me will never come.<br /><br />Ernest Christopher Dowson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-a-lost-love/
