And enfold you, Ay, and hold you, And so keep you what they make you, Sweet! III. You like us for a glance, you know For a word's sake Or a sword's sake, All's the same, whate'er the chance, you know. IV. And in turn we make you ours, we say You and youth too, Eyes and mouth too, All the face composed of flowers, we say. V. All's our own, to make the most of, Sweet Sing and say for, Watch and pray for, Keep a secret or go boast of, Sweet! VI. But for loving, why, you would not, Sweet, Paid you, brayed you In a mortar for you could not, Sweet! VII. So, we leave the sweet face fondly there: Be its beauty Its sole duty! Let all hope of grace beyond, lie there! As,why must one, for the love foregone, Thunder-striking Earth, the heaven, we looked above for, gone! X. Why, with beauty, needs there money be, Crush the fly-king In his gauze, because no honey-bee? -A sick man sees Truer, when his hot eyes roll on her! XVI. Thus the craftsman thinks to grace the rose, For his gold flower, Uses fine things that efface the rose: XVII. Rosy rubies make its cup more rose, Ape the petals, Last, some old king locks it up, morose ! XVIII. Then how grace a rose? I know a way! Dear, had the world in its caprice II. How much of priceless life were spent Society's true ornament, Ere we dared wander, nights like this, Through wind and rain, and watch the Seine, And feel the Boulevard break again To warmth and light and bliss! III. I know! the world proscribes not love; Your lips' contour and downiness, The world's good word! - the Institute! Eh? Down the court three lampions flare: Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her Left in the curtain, the couch's perfume! As she brushed it, the cornice-wreath blossomed anew: Yon looking-glass gleamed at the wave of her feather. Range the wide house from the wing to the centre. - LIFE IN A LOVE. Escape me ? Never Beloved! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both, While the one eludes, must the other pursue. It seems too much like a fate, indeed! And baffled, get up and begin again, So the chase takes up one's life, that's all. While, look but once from your farthest bound At me so deep in the dust and dark, No sooner the old hope goes to ground Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark, I shape me Ever Removed! IN THREE DAYS. I. So, I shall see her in three days II. Too long, this time of year, the days! III. O loaded curls, release your store The tingling hair did, lights and darks When under curl and curl I pried After the warmth and scent inside, Through lights and darks how manifold- As early Art embrowns the gold. IV. What great fear, should one say, "Three days That change the world might change as well |