Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Counsel
By Mary Evelyn Moore Davis (18441909)I
—But for one night though that farewell should be—
Press thou his hand in thine; how canst thou tell
How far from thee
Ere that to-morrow come? Men have been known
Lightly to turn the corner of a street,
And days have grown
Before they looked in loving eyes again.
Parting, at best, is underlaid with tears,
—With tears and pain.
Or time, or distance, clasp with pressure true
The palm of him who goeth forth. Unseen
Fate goeth too!
Some earnest word betwixt the idle talk,
Lest with thee henceforth, night and day,
Regret should walk.
The Galaxy. 1872.