But I am like to die before my flower

And lose inheritors for my desire.

O if thou wert mine own, I had this boast;

Therefore I love thee better than thou know'st.


CHAMAN LALL

"THIRTY YEARS AFTER"

It is thirty years since we two parted,

It is thirty unswept, cobweb years

Since, with a look of indifference, in a storm of elegance,