SHE and I--we kissed and vowed <br />That should be which could not be; <br />Just as if mere vows endowed <br />Love with immortality! <br />Ah, had vows but kept us true, <br />As we thought them sure to do! <br /> <br />She and I--such tiny parts <br />Of the Evolution-plan-- <br />Yet can hold within our hearts <br />All the misery of man: <br />All the ages did prepare, <br />All we are and all we bear. <br /> <br /> <br />She and I--mere counters, toys <br />Nature uses for her game-- <br />Pity that we long for joys, <br />And feel sorrows all the same! <br />Just as though our wills were free, <br />As we dreamed them--I and she!<br /><br />Edith Nesbit<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/microcosm/
