There are two men in the world, who
Are crossing my path I see,
And one is the man I love,
The other's in love with me.
And one exists in the nightly dreams
Of my somber soul evermore,
The other stands at the door of my heart
But I will not open the door.
And one once gave me a vernal breath
Of happiness squandered-alack!
The other gave me his whole, long life
And never got an hour back.
And one lives hot in the song of my blood
Where love is pure, unbound-
The other is one with the humdrum day
Where all our dreams are drowned.
Between these two every woman stands,
In love, beloved, and white-
And once every hundered years it happens
That both in one unite.
