The Future

The speaker imagines that, after ending his pursuit of his beloved, they might cross paths again some time in the future. He cavalierly notes that if this were to occur, nobody would ever be able to tell that they were once former lovers. This tone contradicts the speaker's desperate plea at the end of the poem for the beloved to save him and save their love from destruction.

The Death Bed

The poem closes on an image of love on its death bed. The speaker personifies Passion, Faith, and Innocence as bystanders who attend love as it dies, suggesting that with the cancellation of his pursuit, both he and the beloved will be losing more than they might realize. The speaker uses this image to cultivate pity in his beloved, whom he hopes will return his affections and bring their love back to life.