| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | A Farewell | | By ‘A. E.’ (George William Russell) (1867–1935) |
| | | ONLY in my deep heart I love you, sweetest heart, | |
| Many another vesture hath the soul, I pray | |
| Call me not forth from this. If from the light I part | |
| Only with clay I cling unto the clay. | |
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| And ah! my bright companion, you and I must go | 5 |
| Our ways, unfolding lonely glories, not our own, | |
| Not from each other gather’d; but an inward glow | |
| Breathed by the Lone One to the seeker lone. | |
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| If for the heart’s own sake we break the heart, we may, | |
| When the last ruby drop dissolves in diamond light, | 10 |
| Meet in a deeper vesture in another day; | |
| Until that dawn, dear heart, good-night, good-night! | | | | |
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