INDIFFERENCE - by Oscar Fay Adams

INDIFFERENCE by  Oscar Fay Adams What is indifference, do you ask of me? O well I know the meaning of the phrase. It is to find grey ash instead of blaze That warmed you once; to lose, alas! the key Which turned in friendship's wards; to sometime see The eyes that shone for you in other days Now coldly meet your own in passing gaze; To know that what has been no more shall be. It is to find that you in naught believe, To know that youth has fled far down the past, To feel that hope will never again be born, And love is but a poor worn cheat at last. It is all this, yet not for this to grieve,- To live, and heed not that one lives forlorn!