While I shall sleep, while I—while I—forget!
A. Mary F. Robinson
“MANY IN AFTERTIMES WILL SAY”
Many in aftertimes will say of you,
“He loved her”—while of me what will they say?
Not that I loved you more than just in play,
For fashion’s sake as idle women do.
Even let them prate; who know not what we knew
Of love and parting in exceeding pain,
Of parting hopeless here to meet again,