FIXED is the doom; and to the last of years

Teacher and taught, friend, lover, parent, child,

Each walks, though near, yet separate; each beholds

His dear ones shine beyond him like the stars.

We also, love, forever dwell apart;

With cries approach, with cries behold the gulph,

The Unvaulted; as two great eagles that do wheel in air

Above a mountain, and with screams confer,

Far heard athwart the cedars.

Yet the years

Shall bring us ever nearer; day by day

Endearing, week by............