Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) - "Alas, So Long!"
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May 12th - Happy birthday DG Rossetti!
From the film Dante's Inferno by Ken Russell: The Private Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poet and Painter (1967) - Starring Oliver Reed as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Judith Paris as Elizabeth Siddal and Andrew Faulds as William Morris.
Ah, dear one.
We were young so long.
It seemed that youth would never go.
For skies and trees were ever in song and water in singing flow.
In the days we never again shall know.
Alas, so long.
Ah, then was it all spring weather?
Nay, but we were young and together.
Ah, dear one, I've been oh so long.
It seems that age is loath to part.
Though days and years have never a song.
And oh, are they still the art that warmed the pulses of heart to heart.
Nay, ah, dear one, you've been dead so that we meet again.
Where hours may never lose their song, though flowers forget the rain.