Rebel Verses

<h2><SPAN name="Is_it_finished" id="Is_it_finished"></SPAN>Is it Finished?</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Well&mdash;Is it finished,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Is the long day-dream done?<br/></span> <span class="i0">The battle lost, and won?<br/></span> <span class="i0">Has love at length diminished<br/></span> <span class="i0">And night begun?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Do you pass to another?<br/></span> <span class="i0">Yet still I hold<br/></span> <span class="i0">Devotion all untold;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Although you mate a brother<br/></span> <span class="i0">And leave me cold.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">My heart beats but for thee<br/></span> <span class="i0">And every thought is thine,<br/></span> <span class="i0">As flowers to the sun incline;<br/></span> <span class="i0">For once thou lovedst me<br/></span> <span class="i0">And all was mine.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Though destiny may banish,<br/></span> <span class="i0">My heart is still the same;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And thine is all my fame;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Although thy love may vanish,<br/></span> <span class="i0">True burns my flame.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And, thou mayst know<br/></span> <span class="i0">That shouldst thou call to me,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Where-ever I may be,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Like arrow from its bow<br/></span> <span class="i0">Straight I will fly to thee.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum">[60]</span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />