Over And Undone

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IF one might hope that when we say farewell
  To life, we two might but be one at last!
  But we look back on a divided past,
And a divided future must foretell.
Apart we sowed the seed that flowers in hell,
  The seed that blooms in heaven apart we cast:
  See what remembrances my heart holds fast--
Ask your own heart what deeds you deem done well!


The memory I find my heaven in
Is that one hand-touch you regret as sin;
Your goodness, dear, that stood between us two
And made my hell, may make a heaven for you;
So evermore must lie our souls between
The kiss unkissed, the infinite might-have-been!

© Edith Nesbit