Edith Wharton

Survival

When you and I, like all things kind or cruel,

The garnered days and light evasive hours,

Are gone again to be a part of flowers

And tears and tides, in life’s divine renewal,

 

If some grey eve to certain eyes should wear

A deeper radiance than mere light can give,

Some silent page abruptly flush and live,

May it not be that you and I are there?