| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Indifference | | By Oscar Fay Adams (1855–1919) |
| | | WHAT is indifference, do you ask of me? | |
| O well I know the meaning of the phrase. | |
| It is to find gray ash instead of blaze | |
| That warmed you once; to lose, alas! the key | |
| Which turned in friendship’s wards; to sometime see | 5 |
| 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. | |
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| It is to find that you in naught believe, | |
| To know that youth has fled far down the past, | 10 |
| To feel that hope will ne’er 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! | | | | |
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