Life! I know not what thou art
A L. Barbauld · 1861
Public domain
From The Golden Treasury, selected by Francis Turner Palgrave. A L. Barbauld. The text is free of copyright in the United States. This copy is the poem, without the Project Gutenberg header.
Life! I know not what thou art,
But know that thou and I must part;
And when, or how, or where we met
I own to me's a secret yet.
Life! we've been long together
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear--
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear;
--Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time;
Say not Good Night,--but in some brighter clime
Bid me Good Morning.