Classic Poem

The day is come that I knew must be
(Nothing may trouble me any more)
Love has looked on me wistfully,
Kissed me and left me and closed the door.

Free he went—as he entered free—
But with him too went the dread I bore.
The day is come I knew must be,
Nothing may trouble me any more.

Always I knew it must come to me—
This time I have warded yet waited for,
With a heart that broke at its certainty!
O, the joy and the hope and the dread are o'er!
The day is come that I knew must be,
Nothing may trouble me any more.