We have lived and loved together

We have lived and loved together

Through many changing years;

We have shared each other’s gladness

And wept each other’s tears;

I have known ne’er a sorrow

That was long unsoothed by thee;

For thy smiles can make a summer

Where darkness else would be.

Like the leaves that fall around us

In autumn’s fading hours,

Are the traitor’s smiles, that darken

When the cloud of sorrows lowers;

And though many such we’ve known, love,

Too prone, alas, to range,

We both can speak of one love

Which time can never change.

We have lived and loved together

Through many changing years,

We have shared each other’s gladness

And wept each other’s tears.

And let us hope the future,

As the past has been will be:

I will share with thee my sorrows,

And thou thy joys with me.

by Charles Jefferys, The Best Loved Poems of the American People, 1936