Unknowing

When, soul in soul reflected,
We breathed an aethered air,
&nbsp When we neglected
&nbsp All things elsewhere,
And left the friendly friendless
To keep our love aglow,
&nbsp We deemed it endless . . .
&nbsp —We did not know!

When, by mad passion goaded,
We planned to hie away,
&nbsp But, unforeboded,
&nbsp The storm-shafts gray
So heavily down-pattered
That none could forthward go,
&nbsp Our lives seemed shattered . . .
&nbsp —We did not know!

When I found you, helpless lying,
And you waived my deep misprise,
&nbsp And swore me, dying,
&nbsp In phantom-guise
To wing to me when grieving,
And touch away my woe,
&nbsp We kissed, believing . . .
&nbsp —We did not know!

But though, your powers outreckoning,
You hold you dead and dumb,
&nbsp Or scorn my beckoning,
&nbsp And will not come;
And I say, "'Twere mood ungainly
To store her memory so:"
&nbsp I say it vainly -
&nbsp I feel and know!