Dost thou remember ever, for my sake, 
When we two rowed upon the rock-bound lake? 
How the wind-fretted waters blew their spray 
About our brows like blossom-falls of May 
One memorable day? 

Dost thou remember the glad mouth that cried-- 
"Were it not sweet to die now side by side, 
To lie together tangled in the deep 
Close as the heart-beat to the heart--so keep 
The everlasting sleep?" 

Dost thou remember? Ah, such death as this 
Had set the seal upon my heart's young bliss! 
But, wrenched asunder, severed and apart, 
Life knew a deadlier death: the blighting smart 
Which only kills the heart.