Each spake words of high disdain
And insult to his heart’s best brother:
They parted—ne’er to meet again!
But never either found another;
To free the hollow heart from paining—
They stood aloof, the scars remaining,
Like cliffs which had been rent asunder;
A dreary sea now flows between,
But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,
Shall wholly do away, I ween,