Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. 
You said, ‘Through glory and ecstasy we pass; 
Wind, sun, and earth remain, the birds sing still, 
When we are old, are old.…’ ‘And when we die
All’s over that is ours; and life burns on 
Through other lovers, other lips,” said I, 
— ‘Heart of my heart, our heaven is now, is won!’ 
‘We are Earth’s best, that learnt her lesson here. 
Life is our cry. We have kept the faith!” we said;
‘We shall go down with unreluctant tread 
Rose-crowned into the darkness!’… Proud we were, 
And laughed, that had such brave true things to say. 
— And then you suddenly cried, and turned away.