Poem: "We will not pass this way again, my love"
“We will not pass this way again, my love” To see in passing you mountaine Rocks How clad, how drest, how variant in your kind Chearfull & sad, some shady, dark, some light Some curl’d, some freez’d, some with their hanging locks —from “Of the River Banks between Meziers & Liege,” attributed to Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke We will not pass this way again, my love, although this rock has no mind to change places, alhough this cherry will meet each spring with flowers, my love, we will not pass this way again. Although this rock has no mind to change places, we do, and that makes all the difference. Still as we may sit on this ledge, we think to change places, although this rock does not mind. We do—and that makes all the difference— when we think of doing the slightest thing, brushing your hair back, for instance, as if that makes all the difference to what we do. When we think of doing the slightest thing of love, the cherry returns with a ...