If You Should Go
Love, leave me like the light,
    The gently passing day;
We would not know, but for the night,
    When it has slipped away.
Go quietly; a dream,
    When done, should leave no trace
That it has lived, except a gleam
    Across the dreamer's face.
Credit
              This poem is in the public domain.
Date Published
              01/01/1925