Meeting

If we shall live, we live:
If we shall die, we die:
If we live we shall meet again:
But tonight, good bye,
One word, let but not be heard-
What, not one word?

If we sleep we shall wake again
And see tomorrow's light:
If we wake, we shall meet again:
But tonight, good nigh.
good night, my lost and found-
Still not a sound?

If we live, we must part:
If we die, we part in pain:
If we die, we shall part
Only to meet again.
By those tears on either cheek,
Tomorrow you will speak.

to meet, worth living for:
Worth dying for, to meet.
To meet, worth parting for:
bitter forgot in sweet.
To meet, worth parting before,
Never to part more.

~Christina Rossetti