Always I shall remember you, as my car moved

Away from the station and left you alone by the gate

Utterly and forever frozen in time and solitude

Like a tree on the north shore of Lake Superior

It was a moment only, and you were gone

And I was gone, and we and it were gone

And the two parts of the enormous whole we had known

Melted and swirled away in their separate streams

Down the smooth granite slope of our watershed. 

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We shall find, each, the deep sea in the end

A stillness, and a movement only of tides

That wash a world, whole continents between,

Flooding the estuaries of alien lands. 

And we shall know, after the flow and ebb, 

Things central, absolute and whole

Brought clear of silt, into the open roads

Events shall pass as waves, and we shall stay.