A Pause Of Thought

I looked for that which is not, nor can be, 

And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth: 

But years must pass before a hope of youth 

Is resigned utterly. 

I watched and waited with a steadfast will: 

And though the object seemed to flee away 

That I so longed for, ever day by day 

I watched and waited still. 

Sometimes I said: This thing shall be no more; 

My expectation wearies and shall cease; 

I will resign it now and be at peace: 

Yet never gave it o'er. 

Sometimes I said: It is an empty name 

I long for; to a name why should I give 

The peace of all the days I have to live?— 

Yet gave it all the same. 

Alas, thou foolish one! alike unfit 

For healthy joy and salutary pain: 

Thou knowest the chase useless, and again 

Turnest to follow it.

音乐：Twilight Pieces: No. 3, A Pause of Thought

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