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Never here, forever there,
Where all parting, pain, and care,
And death, and time shall disappear,—
Forever there, but never here!
The horologe of Eternity
Sayeth this incessantly,—
"Forever — never!
Never — forever!"
--
The Old Clock on the Stairs, st. 9 (1845)

 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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