Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="AD_FINEM" id="AD_FINEM"></SPAN>AD FINEM</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I like to think this friendship that we hold</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">As youth's high gift in our two hands to-day</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Still shall we find as bright, untarnished gold</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">What time the fleeting years have left us grey.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">I like to think we two shall watch the May</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Dance down her happy hills and Autumn fold</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The world in flame and beauty, we grown old</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Staunch comrades on an undivided way.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I like to think of Winter nights made bright</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">By book and hearth-flame when we two shall smile</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">At memories of to-day&mdash;we two content</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">To count our vanished dawns by candle-light</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Seeing we hold in our old hands the while</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">The gift of gold youth left us as she went.</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />