Found: A Love Song For February

Two lovers had diverse backgrounds. The man was born in Chatfield, Minnesota, the woman in Zurich, Switzerland. They met and married in Chicago, Illinois. That is all the background you will need in order to understand the following jewel of a poem written by Susan Marr Spalding. It is the first verse of two and speaks of love and fate.

Fate

Two shall be born the whole wide world apart;
And speak in different tongues, and have no thought
Each of the other's being, and no heed;
And these o'er unknown seas to unknown lands
Shall cross, escaping wreck, defying death,
And all unconsciously shape every act
And bend each wandering step to this one end,--
That, one day, out of darkness, they shall meet
And read life's meaning in each other's eyes.