"Atque In Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"

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Title:     "Atque In Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Author: Rennell Rodd [More Titles by Rodd]

This was the end love made,--the hard-drawn breath,
The last long sigh that ever man sighs here;
And then for us, the great unanswered fear,
Will love live on,--the other side of death?

Only a year, and I had hoped to spend
A life of pleasant communing, to be
A kindred spirit holding fast to thee,
We never thought that love had such an end.

This was the end love made, for our delight,
For one sweet year he cannot take away;--
Those tapers burning in the dim half-light,
Those kneeling women with a cross that pray,
And there, beneath green leaves and lilies white,
Beyond the reach of love, our loved one lay.

1879.

[The end]
Rennell Rodd's poem: "Atque In Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"

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