Poems (Hoffman)/She Is Not Gone

by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

SHE IS NOT GONE.

She is not gone, they do not know who say it,
How ever present is she in my thoughts,
The rainbow fades not 'till its threads of light
With Life's strong web are wrought;
The sunset fades not 'till its shreds sun-spangled
By the Soul's loom are caught;
The threads of other lives with ours entangled
 Can never be forgot.

She is not gone,
Some little word just how I heard her say it;
Some little song I heard her sing and play it;
Some little thought, or look, Time cannot stay it;
Her life that still goes on.
The face still smiling on me faded never
Through time and space;
The love that lived and lives, and shall forever,
Still hath its place.