When last we parted, thou wert young and fair, <br />How beautiful let fond remembrance say! <br />Alas! since then old time has stolen away <br />Full thirty years, leaving my temples bare.-- <br />So has it perished like a thing of air, <br />The dream of love and youth!--now both are grey <br />Yet still remembering that delightful day, <br />Though time with his cold touch has blanched my hair, <br />Though I have suffered many years of pain <br />Since then, though I did never think to live <br />To hear that voice or see those eyes again, <br />I can a sad but cordial greeting give, <br />And for thy welfare breathe as warm a prayer-- <br />As when I loved thee young and fair!<br /><br />James Thomson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-last-we-parted/
