Lover's Diary

<p><SPAN name="link2H_4_0025" id="link2H_4_0025"></SPAN></p> <br/> <h2> WHEN FIRST I SAW THEE </h2> <p>When first I saw thee, lady, straightway came<br/> The thought that somehow, somewhere, destiny,<br/> Through blinding paths of happiness or blame,<br/> Would bend my way of life, my soul to thee.<br/> <br/> But then I put it from me: was not I<br/> A wanderer? To-morrow I should be<br/> In other lands-beside another sea;<br/> Nay, you were but a star-gleam in my sky.<br/> <br/> And so I came not in your sight awhile,<br/> You gave no thought, and I passed not away;<br/> But like some traveller in a deep defile<br/> <br/> I walked in darkness even through the day:<br/> Until at last the hands of Circumstance<br/> Pointed the hour that waked me from my trance.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />