THE ETERNAL THREE

There are two men in the world,

Who is crossing my path,

One is the man I love,

The others in love with me.

And one exists in the nightly dreams

Of my sombre evermore,

The other stands at the door of my heart.

And one once gave me a vernal breath

Of happiness squandered alack!

The other gave me his whole, long life

And got never an hour back.

And one life hot in the song of my blood

Where love is pure, unbound-

The other is one with the humdrum day

Where all our dreams are drowned.

Between those two every woman stands,

in love, beloved,

And once every hundred years it happens

That both in one unit.