Love After Death
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
1844 to 1881
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While Memory, in some soft low monotone,
There is an earthly glimmer in the Tomb:
And a long patient smile he can assume:
But, in the corner of the narrow room,
That things made deathless by Death's self may keep.
Holding it hardly between joy and fear,—
That I once throbbed indeed to call my own,
My eyes unclose and feel no need to weep;
And, healed in their own tears and with long sleep,
Behold Love's spirit standeth, with the bloom
The tale of a most short and hollow bliss,
And how that broke, and how it came to this.
Is pouring like an oil into mine ear
O what a change! for now his looks are deep,