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IF I HAD KNOWN

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 9, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 41.

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IF I HAD KNOWN.

If I had known when last I clasped your hand, That on this earth we two would meet no more, That you would be the first to pass beyond That never outward-swinging, low, green door,— Would I have spoken in that jesting tone, If I had known?
The air is filled with fragrance from the pines, The odorous fields with spring’s rare gifts are sweet, I walk beside the sorrow-laden sea That once I loved, with lingering, aimless feet; Perhaps I should not heed its dreary moan, If I had known.
The very sunlight mocks me on the waves, Its music falls in cadence soft and light, No white-winged boat comes o’er the snowy foam, To bring my loved ones to my sight; Perhaps I had not thus been left alone, If I had known.
—Anon.