Part III Poet and Angel
“O Golden Hair! … O Gladness of an Hour
Made flesh and blood!”
“Who speaks of glory and the force of love
And thou not near, my maiden-minded dove!
With all the coyness, all the beauty sheen
Of thy rapt face? A fearless virgin-queen,
A queen of peace art thou,—and on thy head
The golden light of all thy hair is shed
Most nimbus-like, and most suggestive too
Of youthful saints enshrined and garlanded.”
“Our thoughts are free,—and mine have found at last
Their apt solution; and from out the Past
There seems to shine as ’twere a beacon-fire:
And all the land is lit with large desire
Of lambent glory; all the quivering sea
Is big with waves that wait the Morn’s decree
As I, thy vassal, wait thy beckoning smile
Athwart the splendors of my dreams of thee!”
—“A Lover’s Litanies.”—ERIC MACKAY.