PALE lips that trembled under mine She brought to me. A love less human than divine They taught to me. But now too fixedly they smile, -- Too ruddily -- Set, like a vampire's, to beguile Men bloodily. THOUGH time has graven on her brow No change to me, The eyes she turns upon me now Are strange to me. Ah, dear lost love, what fiend has caught The soul of you, That in our happy days I thought The whole of you? ALAS, 'twas I, to whom she gave Too royally. She loved me from my living grave Too loyally. Heedless of all that might befall, The cost to her Unreckoning, she gave me all That's lost to her. SHE bears the burden of the sin Once bound on me. She takes the rags to wrap her in She found on me. Thou God of Justice, I have lost The way to her. Take thou my life, and all it cost Repay to her! |