What Love Remembers
In Chapter 9, Rae Gardiner marries Brook Hamilton on short notice. The sisters pack:
“We’ve been such chums, haven’t we, Pat? We’ve laughed and cried together . . . we’re friends as well as sisters . . . only for those horrid weeks we never really spoke to each other. That’s the memory I’m ashamed of. But I’ve so many beautiful memories . . . of home and you and mother and Judy. They’ll always light life like a lamp. Can you quote that verse we found the other night and thought so lovely?”
“‘What Love anticipates may die in flower,
What Love possesses may be thine an hour,
But redly gleams in Life’s unlit Decembers
What Love remembers.’”“It’s true, isn’t it, dear? We’ll always have our lovely memories even in our ‘late Decembers.’ Oh, I’m going to miss you all. I’ll often be hungry for Silver Bush. Don’t think I don’t feel leaving it and you all, Pat. I do. But . . . but . . .”
“There’s Brook Hamilton,” smiled Pat.
What Love Remembers
Ethelwyn Wetherald
What Love anticipates may die in flower,
What Love possesses may be thine an hour,
But redly gleams in Life’s unlit Decembers
What Love remembers.’
The poem is part of Ethelwyn Wetherald’s anthology, The Last Robin
