ReunitedAuthor(s): Gilbert ParkerSource: The Lotus Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5 (May, 1910), p. 32Published by:Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20543232 .

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THE Reunited. at LOTUS By Gilbert Parker. (b. 1862.)

\W1HEN you and I have play'd the little hour, Have seen the tall subaltern, Life, to Death

Yield up his sword; and, smiling, draw the breath,

The first long breath of freedom; when the flower

Of Recompense hath flutter'd to our feet,

As to an actor's; and, the curtain down,

We turn to face each other all alone

Alone, we two, who never yet did meet,

Alone, and absolute, and free: 0 then,

0 then, most dear, how shall be told the tale?

Clasp'd hands, press'd lips, and so clasp'd hands again;

No words. But as the proud wind fills the sail,

My love to yours shall reach, then one deep moan

Of joy, and then our infinite Alone.

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