Part 2 — A SONG OF AUTUMN
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All through the golden weather Until the autumn fell, Our lives went by together So wildly and so well.
But autumn's wind uncloses The heart of all your flowers; I think, as with the roses, So hath it been with ours.
Like some divided river Your ways and mine will be, To drift apart for ever, For ever till the sea.
And yet for one word spoken, One whisper of regret, The dream had not been broken, And love were with us yet.
Rennell Rodd [1858-