"It Will Not Change"
It will not change now After so many years; Life has not broken it With parting or tears; Death will not alter it, It will live on In all my songs for you When I am gone.
Sara Teasdale
It will not change now After so many years; Life has not broken it With parting or tears; Death will not alter it, It will live on In all my songs for you When I am gone.
Sara Teasdale’s short lyric speaks in a voice of quiet certainty. The speaker looks back after many years and insists that a deep feeling has not weakened. Parting and tears could not break it, and even death will not alter it.
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