Life keeps a library of Joy and Grief --
Gold-edge, illumined text, and the first leaf
We turned together; and in time
There were both tears and laughter in its rhyme,
And blotted pages, and gay plates of flowers.
A strange, rare book was this love-tale of ours!
O! Fame or Fortune, can you recommend
Some other book? For Love has reached the End!
First published in The Australasian, 29 June 1918
