The Coming Of The End

How it came to an end!     The meeting afar from the crowd,     And the love-looks and laughters unpenned,     The parting when much was avowed,      How it came to an end!      It came to an end;     Yes, the outgazing over the stream,     With the sun on each serpentine bend,     Or, later, the luring moon-gleam;      It came to an end.      It came to an end,     The housebuilding, furnishing, planting,     As if there were ages to spend     In welcoming, feasting, and jaunting;      It came to an end.      It came to an end,     That journey of one day a week:     ("It always goes on," said a friend,     "Just the same in bright weathers or bleak;")      But it came to an end.      "HOW will come to an end     This orbit so smoothly begun,     Unless some convulsion attend?"     I often said. "What will be done      When it comes to an end?"      Well, it came to an end     Quite silently - stopped without jerk;     Better close no prevision could lend;     Working out as One planned it should work      Ere it came to an end.