Poems (Mary Coleridge)/Poem 72

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LXXII WHITHER AWAY?
"Where are you going, Master mine?"
 "Mistress of mine, farewell!
Pledge me a cup of golden wine!
Light shall be dark and darkness shine
    Before I tell!?"

"O go you by the firwoods blue?
 And by the Fairies' Trysting Tree?"
"No, for the path is grown with rue
And nightshade's purple fruit, since you
    Walked there with me!"

O go you by the pastures high—
 A grassy road and daisies fair?"
"No, for I saw them fade and die
On the bright evening, love, that I
    Sat with you there."

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