European Elegies/L'Envoi

by Verner von Heidenstam

L’ENVOI

100.A MAN'S LAST WORD TO A WOMAN

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I followed, flushed with hope, thy path of roses
In springtime's radiant dawn and showery stress;

The record of our summer love discloses
Noontides of passion past all power of guess;

And in the autumn gloom, when the act closes,
I give thee thanks, who wert my happiness.

From the Swedish of Verner von Heidenstam.