Love

The End of the Episode

by J. P. Bourke 1860–1914

From The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse (1918)

Love

There is no need to say good-bye,
And weep ;
There is no call on us for tear or sigh.
Men say : Just as ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Is that, think you, a lie ?

Now fate points out our different ways,
And so
We leave the spot where glamour clothed the days-
Leave for those duller worlds that lie below,
With something like amaze.

No use to curse ; whatever crossed
Our way,
No need for words ; when hearts are tempest-tossed-
But those alone may know the cost, who pay,
And bankrupt, pay the cost.

MLA

Bourke, J. P. “The End of the Episode.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bourke_jp/0/.

Chicago

Bourke, J. P. “The End of the Episode.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bourke_jp/0/.

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