Last love word

A. Downes

This is the last; the very, very last!

Anon, and all is dead and dumb,

Only a pale shroud over the past,

That cannot be

Of value small or vast,

Love, then to me!

I can say no more: I have even said too much.

I did not mean that this should come:

I did not know 'twould swell to such -

Nor, perhaps, you -

When that first look and touch,

Love, doomed us two!