En-isled in your arms, in the old lost way

Shall dream our December estranged by a song.

So come, Vernal-Heart, now summer is flown;

Let autumn elude the return of the rime,

And the sad sea change with the season alone:

Not us who have loved—loved well in our time.


Shall summer not know the autumnal touch?

Shall love when forlorn of the spring be green?

Or we, who were lovers of old overmuch,