Impressions: A Book of Verse/After Long Absence: As It Was

by Lilla Cabot Perry

 

AFTER LONG ABSENCE: AS IT WAS

I TOLD myself in singing words
That you were changed and I was true
I would not trust winds, waves and birds
That change was not in you.

I sang love's dirge before we met
"As murdered corpse in river bed
In eyes my heart cannot forget
I see Love lying dead!"

You came—one look—no word was spoken
Our hands, once clasped, forgot to part
And though our silence is unbroken
Heart has found rest on heart.