The Bridge + 

I have come a long way to-day: + 

On a strange bridge alone, + 

Remembering friends, old friends, + 

I rest, without smile or moan, + 

As they remember me without smile or moan. + 

All are behind, the kind + 

And the unkind too, no more + 

To-night than a dream. The stream + 

Runs softly yet drowns the Past, + 

The dark-lit stream has drowned the Future and the Past. + 

No traveller has rest more blest + 

Than this moment brief between + 

Two lives, when the Night’s first lights + 

And shades hide what has never been, + 

Things goodlier, lovelier, dearer, than will be or have been. + 