Poems (Coates 1916)/Volume II/Might I Return

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MIGHT I RETURN

MIGHT I return to that May-day of gladness  When life is young, and all its promise fair; Might I efface each memory of sadness,  And put away the weary load of care,— To pluck the rose that in Time's Eden blows,  I would not go, were I to miss you there! Might I ascend unto those realms of rapture  Whose amaranthine joys fade not again, Might I the secrets of Elysium capture,  And find fruition for my longings vain,— I would forego these dear delights, to know  That you were with me, and to share your pain.