Love, should I fear death most for you or me? br Yet if you die, can I not follow you, br Forcing the straits of change? Alas! but who br Shall wrest a bond from night's inveteracy, br Ere yet my hazardous soul put forth, to be br Her warrant against all her haste might rue?— br Ah! in your eyes so reached what dumb adieu, br What unsunned gyres of waste eternity? br And if I die the first, shall death be then br A lampless watchtower whence I see you weep?— br Or (woe is me!) a bed wherein my sleep br Ne'er notes (as death's dear cup at last you drain), br The hour when you too learn that all is vain br And that Hope sows what Love shall never reap?br br Dante Gabriel Rossettibr br