Lines: We Meet Not As We Parted

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h4 id="id05249" style="margin-top: 2em">LINES: 'WE MEET NOT AS WE PARTED'.</h4> <p id="id05250">[Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862.]</p> <p id="id05251">1.<br/> We meet not as we parted,<br/> We feel more than all may see;<br/> My bosom is heavy-hearted,<br/> And thine full of doubt for me:—<br/> One moment has bound the free. _5<br/></p> <p id="id05252">2.<br/> That moment is gone for ever,<br/> Like lightning that flashed and died—<br/> Like a snowflake upon the river—<br/> Like a sunbeam upon the tide,<br/> Which the dark shadows hide. _10<br/></p> <p id="id05253">3.<br/> That moment from time was singled<br/> As the first of a life of pain;<br/> The cup of its joy was mingled<br/> —Delusion too sweet though vain!<br/> Too sweet to be mine again. _15<br/></p> <p id="id05254">4.<br/> Sweet lips, could my heart have hidden<br/> That its life was crushed by you,<br/> Ye would not have then forbidden<br/> The death which a heart so true<br/> Sought in your briny dew. _20<br/></p> <p id="id05255">5.<br/> …<br/> …<br/> …<br/> Methinks too little cost<br/> For a moment so found, so lost! _25<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />