Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume I/Much Change in a Little Time

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

CHAPTER VI.

MUCH CHANGE IN A LITTLE TIME.

And she too—that beloved child, was gone—
Life's last and loveliest link. There was her place
Vacant beside the hearth—he almost dreamed
He saw her still; so present was her thought.
Then some slight thing reminded him how far
The distance was that parted her and him.
Fear dwells around the absent—and our love
For such grows all too anxious, too much filled
With vain regrets, and fond inquietudes:
We know not Love till those we love depart.

In Blanchard

In the New York Mirror (24th February 1838), as Vain Regrets