Poems (Hooper)/Re-United
RE-UNITED.
You are dead, and I am dying; We shall meet before the morrow;All our lonely years are ended; We have done with pain and sorrow.I shall see you ere the setting Of yon slowly rising moon.Ay, we knew not when we parted That we'd meet again so soon.
All the long years we were severed, All their bitter sorrows seemLike the pale and fading phantoms Of a scarce-remembered dream.And my heart forgets its aching In the joy that thrills it now;There are none to come between us In the land to which I go.
Do you know that I am coming? Do you watch for me to-night? Do you wait above the stars, love, As I wait beneath their light?Ah, I know that you are waiting In your fair and distant home!We've a tryst now, O belovéd! Where no enemies can come.
You are dead, and I am dying, Very slowly, but at last.And I trust the death-veiled Future To redeem the mournful Past.Ne'er was pillow pressed so gladly As the one whereon I'm lying;For I know you'll greet my waking. You are dead, and I am dying!