“A SECRET hope lay hidden in my heart
That one day you, forgetting your disdain,
Would find me not a being all apart
But one with you in bearing joy and pain.
A hope that one day, all your queenship dead,
As man and woman you and I might stand;
And only Truth between us two should tread.
And I should hold your hand within my hand.
I asked one hour between the sun and moon
When there should nothing be of what had been
But just the silence and the empty sea,
And only you and I, and Truth between.
But Time counts no such hour in all his sands.
I die behind these bars, you live a queen.”
She knelt and gave him both her trembling hands,
“Shall bars divide when there is Love between?”
(Ethel Clifford)
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