O Love, when you leave me do not say:

“Tomorrow we meet at twilight”

For that is the time of the darkening hour,

The ending of the day.

All is glowing, gleaming in our love,

All is pulsing, breathing in the light

Of understanding—it is not symbolic of twilight,

Nor yet of dawning, for it has reached the zenith of love’s day.

So when you leave me, dearest, do not say:

“Tomorrow we meet at twilight.”

Rather, beloved of my heart,

“We meet at sunshine tomorrow.”

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{70}

POVERTY

Possessing the jewels of the earth,

Holding within my grasp the sceptre of the universe,

All these would but make me more the pauper—

Were I beggared of your love.

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