Classic Poem

Darling Heart if you would make me
Happy, you have found the way.
Write me letters. How they shake me
Thrill me all the common day.

With our love. I hear your laughter
Little laughs! I see your look
" They Lived Happy Ever After"
As you close the faery book.

Work's been nothing but a pleasure
Every silly little word
Dancing to some elfin measure
Piped by a small chuckling bird.

All this love — as though I've tasted
Wine too rare for human food —
I have dreamed away and wasted
Just because the news was good.

Where's the pain of counting money
When my little queen is there
In the parlour eating honey
Beautiful beyond compare!

How I love you! You are better.
Does it matter — being apart?
Oh, the love that's in this letter
Feel it, beating like a heart.

Beating out — " I do adore you"
Now and to Eternity
See me as I stand before you
Happy as you'd have me be.

Don't be sad and don't be lonely
Drive away those awful fears
When they come remember only
How I've suffered these two years.

Darling heart if you must sorrow
Think: " my pain must be his pain."
Think: " He will be sad tomorrow"
And then — make me smile again.