johndiii's Journal: [Poetry] Parting

        Parting after parting,
        Sore loss and gnawing pain:
        Meeting grows half a sorrow
        Because of parting again.
        When shall the day break
        That these things shall not be?
        When shall new earth be ours
        Without a sea,
        And time that is not time
        But eternity?

        To meet, worth living for;
        Worth dying for, to meet;
        To meet, worth parting for,
        Bitter forgot in sweet:
        To meet, worth parting before,
        Never to part more.

                                -- Christina Rossetti

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