:: ::

:: by


/


LXXI


Ye who have the stable world
  1
In the keeping of your hands,
Flocks and men, the lasting hills,
And the ever-wheeling stars;

Ye who freight with wondrous things
  5
The wide-wandering heart of man
And the galleon of the moon,
On those silent seas of foam;

Oh, if ever ye shall grant
  9
Time and place and room enough
To this fond and fragile heart
Stifled with the throb of love,

On that day one grave-eyed Fate,
  13
Pausing in her toil, shall say,
"Lo, one mortal has achieved
Immortality of love!"







top of page