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The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||
169
LOVE'S QUEST.
Love walks with weary feet the upward way,
Love without joy and led by suffering.
Love's unkissed lips have now no song to sing;
Love's eyes are blind and cannot see the day;
Love walks in utter darkness, and I say:
“O Love, 't is summer,” or “Behold the spring,”
Or, “Love, 't is autumn, leaves are withering,”
And, “Now it is the winter bleak and gray,”
Love without joy and led by suffering.
Love's unkissed lips have now no song to sing;
Love's eyes are blind and cannot see the day;
Love walks in utter darkness, and I say:
“O Love, 't is summer,” or “Behold the spring,”
Or, “Love, 't is autumn, leaves are withering,”
And, “Now it is the winter bleak and gray,”
And still Love heedeth not. “O Love,” I cry,
“Wilt thou not rest? — the path is over steep:”
Love answers not, but passeth all things by;
Nor will he stay for those who laugh or weep.
I follow Love, who follows Grief; but, lo,
Where the way ends, not Love himself can know.
“Wilt thou not rest? — the path is over steep:”
Love answers not, but passeth all things by;
Nor will he stay for those who laugh or weep.
I follow Love, who follows Grief; but, lo,
Where the way ends, not Love himself can know.
The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||