Farewell and Hail

AND now, lost love, whom I must lose again,
Time leans on us. We two are very gray.
Here is the briar-rose tall as your eyes,
And here to earth again turns your dark way.

Farewell. We shall not meet again in all the gray
Years on ruined years, though I shall come
At my own time hereafter to your side,
For then I shall, like you, be strange and dumb.

Yet remember always, love, we two
Are running swift and slender past the bars
That time and space in folly set for love,
We two leap like young lambs among the stars.

We live beyond the winds of change and fear,
We run beyond all shadows of all night,
Safe in the moment that was crystal stone,
We live on the ever-widening coasts of light..

Farewell and hail! This sadness is a dream,
We wake now in crystal eternity.
O love! it was when the sad Orpheus
Turned to look last, he won Eurydice.