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The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||
139
MISTRUST.
I fell before Love in my heart, and cried,
“O Love, Love, Love, am I cast out from thee?
These that once held me in captivity
Rise up again about me on each side.
Have I so long their deadly charms defied,
To fall now, heedless of my life to be?
O Love! dear lord, hast thou forsaken me?
Dost thou thy face in sore displeasure hide?”
“O Love, Love, Love, am I cast out from thee?
These that once held me in captivity
Rise up again about me on each side.
Have I so long their deadly charms defied,
To fall now, heedless of my life to be?
O Love! dear lord, hast thou forsaken me?
Dost thou thy face in sore displeasure hide?”
Then said a voice, “Thou dost me wrong, O son,
Thou art not fallen yet. Does not this prove
That thou art wholly mine, that I am Love,
And I am with thee? Of thyself alone,
What strength hadst thou to battle with their spell?
I am thy sword, and buckler; it is well!”
Thou art not fallen yet. Does not this prove
That thou art wholly mine, that I am Love,
And I am with thee? Of thyself alone,
What strength hadst thou to battle with their spell?
I am thy sword, and buckler; it is well!”
The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||