We only part to meet again.

The line expresses a consolatory view of separation: parting is framed not as an ending but as an interval before reunion. Its emotional force lies in reversing the usual finality of farewell—suggesting continuity of affection and the expectation (or hope) of meeting again, whether in ordinary life after travel and absence, or in a more spiritual sense of reunion beyond death. As a compact, epigrammatic sentiment, it fits the period’s taste for polished, memorable couplets and could function as a valediction in verse, letter-writing, or song. Without a verified textual setting, however, its precise nuance—romantic, friendly, or elegiac—cannot be fixed.