I.
Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!
Sit and watch by her side an hour.
That is her book-shelf this her bed;
She plucked that piece of geranium-flower
Beginning to die too in the glass;
Little has yet been changed I think:
The shutters are shut no light may pass
Save two long rays thro' the hinge's chink.
II.
Sixteen years old when she died!
Perhaps she had scarcely heard my name;
It was not her time to love; beside
Her life had many a hope and aim
Duties enough and little cares
And now was quiet now astir
Till God's hand beckoned unawares---
And the sweet white brow is all of her.
III.
Is it too late then Evelyn Hope?
What your soul was pure and true
The good stars met in your horoscope
Made you of spirit fire and dew---
And just because I was thrice as old
And our paths in the world diverged so wide
Each was nought to each must I be told?
We were fellow mortals nought beside?
IV.
No indeed! for God above
Is great to grant as mighty to make
And creates the love to reward the love:
I claim you still for my own love's sake!
Delayed it may be for more lives yet
Through worlds I shall traverse not a few:
Much is to learn much to forget
Ere the time be come for taking you.
V.
But the time will come---at last it will
When Evelyn Hope what meant (I shall say)
In the lower earth in the years long still
That body and soul so pure and gay?
Why your hair was amber I shall divine
And your mouth of your own geranium's red---
And what you would do with me in fine
In the new life come in the old one's stead.
VI.
I have lived (I shall say) so much since then
Given up myself so many times
Gained me the gains of various men
Ransacked the ages spoiled the climes;
Yet one thing one in my soul's full scope
Either I missed or itself missed me:
And I want and find you Evelyn Hope!
What is the issue? let us see!
VII.
I loved you Evelyn all the while.
My heart seemed full as it could hold?
There was place and to spare for the frank young smile
And the red young mouth and the hair's young gold.
So hush---I will give you this leaf to keep:
See I shut it inside the sweet cold hand!
There that is our secret: go to sleep!
You will wake and remember and understand.
Robert Browning
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