Littell's Living Age/Volume 173/Issue 2233/Only a Week

Only a week, since you and I
Just "kept each other company;"
Ah! sweet old phrase of every day,
Such as we use in earnest play,
Touching the heart-chords tenderly.

Now, sullen looks the stranger sky
On the slow hours that weary by;
How long since we two wooed delay?
Only a week!

Could any graceful subtlety
The past's sweet careless magic try
To teach the present to essay
The joy that went with you away?
That asked to be, to live, to die —
Only a week!