Martha Anne Matley

Where’s She Gone?

Where’s she gone, the one we knew,

The one we knew and loved,

Who knew us all and loved us all –

Where now is all that love?

Where now her smile? Where now her frown?

Her bright, resounding laugh?

Ah, all are gone, by time undone;

All that was her is past.

Down the stream we drifted,

And saw her on the shore;

Around a bend we drifted,

And saw her then no more.

And yet still she stands there-

Still stands beside the shore.

-Oliver Wright-