I nearly left this song out of the Teasdale collection because it is so short. I decided 
to leave it in because when it is heard as part of the whole collection it is like a small 
breeze that momentarily passes and is then gone. That fit with the content of the poem so 
well I decided that I needed to leave the song in the collection.

AFTER PARTING
Words by Sara Teasdale, music by James E. Nelson

Oh, I have sown my love so wide
That he will find it everywhere;
It will awake him in the night,
It will enfold him in the air.

I set my shadow in his sight
And I have winged it with desire,
That it may be a cloud by day
And in the night a shaft of fire.