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The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||
A LOST CHANCE.
When side by side we watched the darkening sky,
With love-lit faces, leaning each to each,
My lady stirr'd with low, impassion'd speech
The silence, saying, “If we now could die,
Both loving so, were it not well?” but I,
Who dreamed of fairer heavens within my reach,
Said, “Nay, not yet, for Love hath still to teach
Us sweeter secrets ere we put life by.”
With love-lit faces, leaning each to each,
My lady stirr'd with low, impassion'd speech
The silence, saying, “If we now could die,
Both loving so, were it not well?” but I,
Who dreamed of fairer heavens within my reach,
Said, “Nay, not yet, for Love hath still to teach
Us sweeter secrets ere we put life by.”
Then she, who saw our souls clothed in such peace
As wraps the hills at sunset, turned her face:
Ah, God! if we had made that thought our prayer,
It might have been that, kneeling at her knees,
My lips on hers, Death had made answer there,
And bound us in the bonds of our embrace.
As wraps the hills at sunset, turned her face:
Ah, God! if we had made that thought our prayer,
It might have been that, kneeling at her knees,
My lips on hers, Death had made answer there,
And bound us in the bonds of our embrace.
The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||