Life In A Love

Robert Browning

Escape me?
Never---
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
  So long as the world contains us both,
  Me the loving and you the loth
While the one eludes, must the other pursue. 
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
  It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
  Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
  To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again,---
  So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all. 
While, look but once from your farthest bound
  At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope goes to ground
  Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,
I shape me---
Ever
Removed!

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