Thomas Hardy - Unknowing

WHEN, soul in soul reflected,

We breathed an æthered air,

  When we neglected

  All things elsewhere,

And left the friendly friendless

To keep our love aglow,

  We deemed it endless…

  —We did not know!

 

When, by mad passion goaded,

We planned to hie away,

  But, unforeboded,

  The storm-shafts gray

So heavily down-pattered

That none could forthward go,

  Our lives seemed shattered…

  —We did not know!

 

When I found you, helpless lying,

And you waived my deep misprise,

  And swore me, dying...