Second April / by Edna St. Vincent Millay [electronic resource]

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Oh, my belovèd, have you thought of this:How in the years to come unscrupulous Time, More cruel than Death, will tear you from my kiss,And make you old, and leave me in my prime?How you and I, who scale together yet A little while the sweet, immortal heightNo pilgrim may remember or forget, As sure as the world turns, some granite night Shall lie awake and know the gracious flame Gone out forever on the mutual stone; And call to mind that on the day you came I was a child, and you a hero grown? — And the night pass, and the strange morning break Upon our anguish for each other's sake!