1. I wonder how you all have fared since we parted,
Do you now feel what we feel?

2. You built while longing for us did not build within,
You prospered while anguish did not prosper us.

3. Say to those joyous in our absence, though
We were hurt for their sake, what hurt us.

4. Our distance never weakened you
As your distance weakened us.

5. We might have consoled ourselves had you,
Before the parting, been like us.

6. You cared not, when you left one morning,
What the days had inflicted on us.

7. Our lids kept vigils after you had gone
As if we'd never known rest.

8. No eyes that saw you saw, after you'd left,
Aught of beauty, only tears pouring.

9. Beguile the eyes with a phantom like the way
Talk of the departed beguiles the heart.