Rosemary and Pansies/Twilight Life
TWILIGHT LIFE
I live a twilight life—not dark, but yet Enjoying but a dim uncertain light; Not glad nor sad, no victim of regret, But ever not so near to day as night: Pleasure's intoxication now no more Can fill me with its rapture—for I know Earthward we fall at last though high we soar, And time shall soon all gladness overthrow: Yet now I feel not sorrow's bitterness Crashing me down as once with leaden weight, For that same fate that makes our pleasures less, The pressure too of misery doth abate: So now I rest content, whate'er befall, To live or die—"the readiness is all."