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Title: Irrevocable Author: Gilbert Parker [More Titles by Parker] What you have done may never be undone The days swing on, the sun glows and is gone, What we have known is but a bitter pledge Through what great cycles hath this circumstance To our two lives, and yours would seem to me You could not, if you would, give what had been Nay, not the Fates, look higher; is God blind? That they saw but a little space before, And called us into being but to give The life that feeds upon itself is mad-- Keep but your place and simply meet With spectres seen and spectres all unseen Well do they who have felt the spectres' hands Upheld the weary head, or fanned the brow So let it be with us: perchance will come [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |