Transcience
In Chapter 6 of Mistress Pat, Sid Gardiner elopes with May Binnie. They break the news on Pat’s birthday, causing the Gardiner family great grief.
“I won’t,” said Pat rebelliously. “They may have to come but I haven’t got to take them without protest. I’ll never reconcile myself to this . . . never.”
“‘To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter
Will soon be some forgotten yesterday,’”quoted Rae softly.
“It won’t,” said Pat dismally.
Transcience
Sarojini Naidu
Nay, do not grieve tho’ life be full of sadness,
Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief,
Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty
To lotus blossom and ashoka leaf.
Nay, do not pine, tho’ life be dark with trouble,
Time will not pause or tarry on his way;
To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter,
Will soon be some forgotten yesterday.
Nay, do not weep; new hopes, new dreams, new faces,
The unspent joy of all the unborn years,
Will prove your heart a traitor to its sorrow,
And make your eyes unfaithful to their tears.
