
If you were coming in the fall, I’d brush the Summer by with half a smile, and half a spurn, As Housewives do, a fly.
If I could see you in a year, I’d wind the months in balls — And put them each in separate Drawers, For fear the numbers fuse —
If only Centuries, delayed, I’d count them on my Hand, Subtracting, till my fingers dropped Into Van Diemen’s land.
If certain, when this life was out — That yours and mine,should be, I’d toss it yonder, like a rind, And taste Eternity —
But,now,uncertain of the length Of this, that is between, It goals me, like the Goblin Bee — That will not state — it’s sting. |