QUOTE : I have outlasted all desire,<br />My dreams and I have grown apart;<br />My grief alone is left entire,<br />The gleamings of an empty heart.<br /><br />The storms of ruthless dispensation<br />Have struck my flowery garland numb,<br />I live in lonely desolation<br />And wonder when my end will come.<br /><br />Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted<br />By tardy winter's whistling chill,<br />A single leaf which has outlasted<br />Its season will be trembling still.