The Bridge - The Traveler - The Rest...

The Bridge


I have come a long way today;
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, lovlier, dearer, than will
Be or have been.