Lost On Both Sides
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
As when two men have loved a woman well, Each hating each, through Love’s and Death’s deceit; Since not for either this stark marriage-sheet And the long pauses of this wedding bell; Yet o’er her grave the night and day dispel At last their feud forlorn, with cold and heat; Nor other than dear friends to death may fleet The two lives left that most of her can tell:— So separate hopes, which in a soul had wooed The one same Peace, strove with each other long, And Peace before their faces perished since: So through that soul, in restless brotherhood, They roam together now, and wind among Its bye-streets, knocking at the dusty inns.
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