The Division



Rain on the windows, creaking doors,
With blasts that besom the green,
And I am here, and you are there,
And a hundred miles between!

O were it but the weather, Dear,
O were it but the miles
That summed up all our severance,
There might be room for smiles.

But that thwart thing betwixt us twain,
Which nothing cleaves or clears,
Is more than distance, Dear, or rain,
And longer than the years!

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3 comments:

Vicasso said...

do u take your own photos?, if you don't where do u get the from?

Arborfield said...

Vneath. Mostly my own... sometimes from the web. In the latter case I try to say where.

Galfurion said...

Who is this poem from?!