The Parting-Gate
Charles Tennyson Turner
1808 to 1879
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Nor weep, but shuddered at that stern farewell;
Where they had laughed and loitered, sat and stood?
That latch'd itself behind them, as they pass'd —
Then kissed and parted. Soon her funeral knell
Tolled from a foreign clime; he did not talk
Harsh was the clang of the last homeward gate
Alone in life! alone in Moreham wood!
To leave him thus, alone with his sad mood,
'Twas the last gate in all their lovers'-walk
In that dear footpath, haunted by her smile?
In that old beech-walk, now bestrewn with mast,
Without the kiss beyond it! Was it good
Through all that sweet, forsaken, forest-mile!
And roaring loud — they lingered long and late;