Dancing Dust
	Poems by Mollie Caird (1922-2000)
	Such sweet sorrow
Home Alphabetic index of poems Thematic index of poems Biography Gallery Contact and links	Our stars conjoined And we were born for this. And all our love predestinate Inevitable is. No human limitations Of clocks and calendars Can alter God's eternity Or circumscribe the stars — So is our love unbounded By years' and miles' alarms, Sub specie aeternitatis And in each other's arms. But arms and eyes are properties Of poor mortality, And in face of God's refinement Must our parting sorrow be: Your going, love, has made a mock Of what my heart believes. And golden autumn's rotted Into fog and fallen leaves. This poem has also been titled "Parting" both titles being from Juliet's speech in Act II Scene II of Romeo and Juliet. 27 October 1943