Elegy I

The clouds have brought us into shade,

But light lives on in every hour

It glows in every leaf and flower

And all the pastures it has made.

The stream is caught by winter’s freeze

But water lives in spite of weather,

In sun and snow it dwells forever

As nightly dew upon the trees.

You are not gone. Love never yields,

You live in memory and mist

That summer drew up with a kiss

And blew out onto heaven's fields.