After Paul Verlaine-Ii

COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL Into the lonely park all frozen fast, Awhile ago there were two forms who passed. Lo, are their lips fallen and their eyes dead, Hardly shall a man hear the words they said. Into the lonely park, all frozen fast, There came two shadows who recall the past. 'Dost thou remember our old ecstasy?'-- 'Wherefore should I possess that memory?'-- 'Doth thine heart beat at my sole name alway? Still dost thou see my soul in visions?' 'Nay!'-- 'They were fair days of joy unspeakable, Whereon our lips were joined?'--'I cannot tell.'-- 'Were not the heavens blue, was not hope high?'-- 'Hope has fled vanquished down the darkling sky.'-- So through the barren oats they wandered, And the night only heard the words they said.