Wessex Poems by Thomas Hardy - 31/48. Unknowing (read by Libby Gohn)

XXXI. UNKNOWING When soul and soul reflected, We breathed an ethered air, When we neglected all things elsewhere, And left the friendly friendless To keep our love aglow, We deemed it endless—we did not know. Then by mad passion goaded, We planned to hide away, But unforeboded the storm-shafts gray, So heavily down-patterned That none could forward go, Our lives seemed shattered—we did not know. When I found you helpless lying, And you waved me deep misprise, And swore me dying in phantom guise, To wing to me when grieving, And touch away my woe, We kissed, believing—we did not know. But though your powers out-reckoning, You hold dead and dumb, Or scorn my beckoning and will not come, And I say, t'were moved ungainly To store her memory so, I say it vainly—I feel and know.