Thoughts Of You

I wonder why we parted,

     Once we thought it could not be;

I swore to love you ever,

     And you, you promised me.

We pledged upon the river,

     And the lilies heard it all;

We repledged in the garden,

     Where the roses climbed the wall.

And then, – the dream was over,

     Cruel notes went to and fro;

And here am I this moment

     Wondering why we parted so.

June 24, ‘94

Pub. in Boston

Traveler, Mar. 7,

    1895