Twilight Songs :: :: University of Virginia Library

THERE.

There shall be no more partings there for ever.
She need not see the children going forth,
By sea and land and many a fordless river
This to the East: that to the South, the North.
She shall not sit alone at the even fall
With empty hands that had so much to keep,
Nor watch the shadow of clouds upon the wall
Nor have the children only in her sleep.

There shall be none feeble, who may not follow
The children who must go seeking their bread,
She shall be young, she shall be fleet as the swallow,
Nor by the low fire nod an ageing head.
The parting years when the cold shadow lay
Even on the meetings shall be over and done.
She shall not sit alone at end of day;
Dreaming of days when they were little, alone.

Her arms, they shall be full to overflowing,
The children shall fly home to the kind breast.
There shall be never again the talk of going.
She shall not die alone and dispossessed.
For love-lies-bleeding she shall have heartsease
And Time endure for ever and a day
The children will fly home by lands and seas,
They will come home to her, come home to stay.