Enoch Powell: First Poems: XIV) ‘Tis true I loved you from the first

XIV) ‘Tis true I loved you from the first

‘Tis true I loved you from the first;

Yet had I turned away,

I should have soon forgot my thirst

And happier been today.

For now your face is graven deep

Upon my inward sight,

And when I wake and when I sleep,

I see you day and night;

And since our parting is decreed

By laws we cannot break,

The severed tissues long will bleed

And long the wound will ache.