 | 'Twixt Kiss and Lip or Under the Sword. By the author of "Women Must Weep," [i.e. F. W. O. Ward] Third edition |  |
THE BANNER OF BLOOD.
The armies of the Night are breaking fast,
The mists are shattered and the shadows flee,
And on the silence of the earth and sea,
The spell of speech and melody is east;
The mists are shattered and the shadows flee,
And on the silence of the earth and sea,
The spell of speech and melody is east;
Yet thine the songs I hear for peril past,
And in the sunbeams I behold but thee,
Disthroning darkness, to unveil at last
The splendid spaces of the world to be.
And in the sunbeams I behold but thee,
Disthroning darkness, to unveil at last
The splendid spaces of the world to be.
The waters wild at thy sweet footstep fawn,
And warring winds make peace and round thee play,
While bane is turned to blessing on thy way;
And warring winds make peace and round thee play,
While bane is turned to blessing on thy way;
And in a dream I see thee upward drawn,
Beneath the blood-red banner of the Dawn,
And towards the gates of everlasting Day.
Beneath the blood-red banner of the Dawn,
And towards the gates of everlasting Day.
| 'Twixt Kiss and Lip or Under the Sword. By the author of "Women Must Weep," [i.e. F. W. O. Ward] Third edition | |