AS Love and Hope together Walk by me for a while, Link-armed the ways they travel For many a pleasant mile -- Link-armed and dumb they travel, They sing not, but they smile. Hope leaving, Love commences To practise on the lute; And as he sings and travels With lingering, laggard foot, Despair plays @3obbligato@1 The sentimental flute. Until in singing garments, Comes royally, at call -- Comes limber-hipped Indiff'rence Free stepping, straight and tall -- Comes singing and lamenting, The sweetest pipe of all. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A GAGE D'AMOUR by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON WHERE THE PICNIC WAS by THOMAS HARDY DEATH OF THE DAY by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR PRAYER FOR THIS HOUSE by LOUIS UNTERMEYER GRACE AND STRENGTH by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |