01.05.2012, 11:20
Love's Invitation
SEIZE on the present, for the past is dead,
And all the future looms with stormy sky
Livid and rumbling, and the dark is nigh -
The terrors of a night when overhead
The crash of thunder weighs the heart with dread,
And ceaseless lightnings snake-like writhe and fly
About the lift, and all the meadows lie
Sodden with streaming rain, and love hath fled.
Forget the future ; let the present shake
Its petals round us in the sunshine here !
Forget old pain and taste new joy instead !
For one brief moment, live for love's own sake
In careless pleasure, free from hope and fear :
Seize on the present, for the past is dead !
SEIZE on the present, for the past is dead,
And all the future looms with stormy sky
Livid and rumbling, and the dark is nigh -
The terrors of a night when overhead
The crash of thunder weighs the heart with dread,
And ceaseless lightnings snake-like writhe and fly
About the lift, and all the meadows lie
Sodden with streaming rain, and love hath fled.
Forget the future ; let the present shake
Its petals round us in the sunshine here !
Forget old pain and taste new joy instead !
For one brief moment, live for love's own sake
In careless pleasure, free from hope and fear :
Seize on the present, for the past is dead !