66 A WOOD-PIECE
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Yes, you will soon forget. Leaf-shadowed ways Are disenchanted now; the kindly haze Of love-light lifts from too-long loitering; A kiss is now at most two lips that cling; And mirth is dead now; and desire decays. Even now Love flutters restive wings, and stays Impatient of restraint, what while I praise Love’s old lost favor, past replevining,— But you will soon forget. Yes, you will soon forget: and naught betrays That any heart save mine even now inveighs In futile rage because nor youth nor spring Can stay or solace light love’s vanishing. I shall remember, dear, through all my days, But you will soon forget.