Andromeda, and Other Poems/Dolcino to Margaret

by Charles Kingsley

DOLCINO TO MARGARET.

THE world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown
 Can never come over again,
Sweet wife;
 No, never come over again.

For woman is warm though man be cold,
 And the night will hallow the day;
Till the heart which at even was weary and old
 Can rise in the morning gay,
Sweet wife;
 To its work in the morning gay.