The Broken Wing/The Sorrow of Love

​II. The Path of Tears

I. The Sorrow of Love

Why did you turn your face away?  Was it for grief or fearYour strength would fail or your pride grow weak,If you touched my hand, if you heard me speak,  After a life-long year?
Why did you turn your face away?  Was it for love or hate?Or the spell of that wild miraculous hourThat hurled our souls with relentless power  In the eddying fires of Fate?
Turn not your face from me, O Love!  Shall Sorrow or Death conspireTo set our suffering spirits freeFrom the passionate bondage of Memory  Or the thrall of the old desire?
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