FAR-OFF, most secret, and inviolate Rose, Enfold
me in my hour of hours; where those Who
sought thee in the Holy Sepulchre, Or
in the wine-vat, dwell beyond the stir And
tumult of defeated dreams; and deep Among
pale eyelids, heavy with the sleep Men
have named beauty. Thy great leaves enfold The
ancient beards, the helms of ruby and gold Of
the crowned Magi; and the king whose eyes Saw
the pierced Hands and Rood of elder rise In
Druid vapour and make the torches dim; Till
vain frenzy awoke and he died; and him Who
met Fand walking among flaming dew By
a grey shore where the wind never blew, And
lost the world and Emer for a kiss; And
him who drove the gods out of their liss, And
till a hundred moms had flowered red Feasted,
and wept the barrows of his dead; And
the proud dreaming king who flung the crown And
sorrow away, and calling bard and clown Dwelt
among wine-stained wanderers in deep woods: And
him who sold tillage, and house, and goods, And
sought through lands and islands numberless years, Until
he found, with laughter and with tears, A
woman of so shining loveliness That
men threshed corn at midnight by a tress, A
little stolen tress. I, too, await The
hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When
shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like
the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die? Surely
thine hour has come, thy great wind blows, Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose? |
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