 | Collected poems of Thomas Hardy |  |
“THE CURTAINS NOW ARE DRAWN”
(SONG)
I
The curtains now are drawn,And the spindrift strikes the glass,
Blown up the jaggèd pass
By the surly salt sou'-west,
And the sneering glare is gone
Behind the yonder crest,
While she sings to me:
“O the dream that thou art my Love, be it thine,
And the dream that I am thy Love, be it mine,
And death may come, but loving is divine.”
II
I stand here in the rain,With its smite upon her stone,
And the grasses that have grown
Over women, children, men,
And their texts that “Life is vain;”
But I hear the notes as when
Once she sang to me:
“O the dream that thou art my Love, be it thine,
And the dream that I am thy Love, be it mine,
And death may come, but loving is divine.”
1913.
| Collected poems of Thomas Hardy | |