One and Two

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2> ONE AND TWO. </h2> <p>I.<br/> If you to me be cold,<br/> Or I be false to you,<br/> The world will go on, I think,<br/> Just as it used to do;<br/> The clouds will flirt with the moon,<br/> The sun will kiss the sea,<br/> The wind to the trees will whisper,<br/> And laugh at you and me;<br/> But the sun will not shine so bright,<br/> The clouds will not seem so white,<br/> To one, as they will to two;<br/> So I think you had better be kind,<br/> And I had best be true,<br/> And let the old love go on,<br/> Just as it used to do.</p> <p>II.<br/> If the whole of a page be read,<br/> If a book be finished through,<br/> Still the world may read on, I think,<br/> Just as it used to do;<br/> For other lovers will con<br/> The pages that we have passed,<br/> And the treacherous gold of the binding<br/> Will glitter unto the last.<br/> But lids have a lonely look,<br/> And one may not read the book&mdash;<br/> It opens only to two;<br/> So I think you had better be kind,<br/> And I had best be true,<br/> And let the reading go on,<br/> Just as it used to do.</p> <p>III.<br/> If we who have sailed together<br/> Flit out of each other's view,<br/> The world will sail on, I think,<br/> Just as it used to do;<br/> And we may reckon by stars<br/> That flash from different skies,<br/> And another of love's pirates<br/> May capture my lost prize;<br/> But ships long time together<br/> Can better the tempest weather<br/> Than any other two;<br/> So I think you had better be kind,<br/> And I had best be true,<br/> That we together may sail,<br/> Just as we used to do.</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />