Southern garland . its meaning with the years, Yet must live on unbroken. Not to receive a vow No man may pay thee:Vowing to love till death. Through death, it may to shut eyes and turn away From the Powers that loves eyes to Time, be blind, and say. This love shall last for ever. Only the Now we know. Or dream we know it!Others may reap the grain. Though our hands sow and past alike are not. We may joy To-day, or love as we two love. Beloved, And love no more to-morrow. Let us go into love With eyes lifes long beyond. And death behin
Southern garland . its meaning with the years, Yet must live on unbroken. Not to receive a vow No man may pay thee:Vowing to love till death. Through death, it may to shut eyes and turn away From the Powers that loves eyes to Time, be blind, and say. This love shall last for ever. Only the Now we know. Or dream we know it!Others may reap the grain. Though our hands sow and past alike are not. We may joy To-day, or love as we two love. Beloved, And love no more to-morrow. Let us go into love With eyes lifes long beyond. And death behind it;Feel we our fierce immortal faith But in silence, Sweet,—not say itIn words; for what arc we. Beloved ? A day, an hour, may slay it. Yet oh, my one Beloved, DrcatllS What vow could bind us Jlt Closer than this one kiss, FlOWCr. The ?world behind us ?—Starlight and moonlight in the east. In the west a dull, red somewhere God, to read our hearts* And write on us, For Ever, ?§ Orcams in To soar AS a. ^wild white bird . O soar as a wild white bird, With a song unbound and fetterless!With a gush of song in the throat. Loosened and loud and the wind its only accompaniment. To sing and soar and look down On a w^orld one leaves w^hen one tires of it:With a glancing wing for a sail. Dashing, when one desires of it,Tiirough the spray of the great sea-wilderness. Or sw^eeping with mighty curves From land to sky, and to land again : To cast off Time, and to stay Where ones will alone lays hand on one : Not to own or owe in the universe. Sudden and swift some day Meet Death, and know no fear of Him,But close the eyes and have done. . When a wild bird dies none hear of has sung and ceased, and is happiest. xvf.
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