Three Songs of Adieu

To part now and parting now,
Never to meet again;
To have done for ever; I and thou,
With joy, and so with pain.

It is too hard, too hard to meet
If we trust love no more;
Those other meetings were too sweet
That went before.

And I would have, now love is over,
An end to all, and end:
I cannot, having been your lover,
Stoop to become your friends! 

Fade, vision bright!
No clinging hands can stay thee.
Die, dream of light!
No clasping hands can pray thee;
Farewell, delight!
I have no more to say to thee.

The gold was gold the little while it lasted,
The dream was true, although its joy be blasted.
That hour was mine so swift a time it lasted.

Fade, vision bright!
Die, dream of light!
Farewell, Farewell.

Thou goest; to what distant place
Wilt thou thy sunlight carry?
I stay with cold and clouded face:
How long am I to tarry?
Where'er thou goest, morn will be;
Thou leavest night and gloom to me.

The night and gloom I can but take;
I do not grudge thy splendor:
Bid souls of eager men awake;
Be kind and bright and tender.
Give day to other worlds; for me
It must suffice to dream of thee.