Had we never

Who but a poet can interpret the pain of a parting between loving hearts, with its remorseful recollections of the wholly innocent love's joys that are past?

Had we never loved sae kindly,
Had we never loved sae blindly,
Never met—or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken hearted.

From
The World's Best Poetry
In Ten Volumes, Illustrated

Vol. III: Sorrow And Consolation: An Interpreter Of Life, by Lyman Abbott