Alas, my love, if I make you live And the page step forth and sit beside me Or better still, bestride the I gave you close within the cloak I lent to hide thee Perhaps I'd forth to ask thy name while thou liest underneath my pen That honour given which the poorest Unjustly was withheld. But if I held thee as I did ere now to pass my fingers through the last Of tendrils, or peruse thy brow In fear of sending off what cast Too for my insufficient mind To grasp the fullest detail and The presence that your image behind That thou in all thy glory remain I fear my oversight I would not For now reflection I confess That I never did intend With title long or surname rich to But rather let in my Run the thoughts of who perhaps you were Before your soul demanded creation And deigned my and willing heart to stir For such a and impassioned face Could well be but newborn unto this But sure among a distant race Thou hast known more than all who here And could much of places thou hast seen And battles fought for won and lost And how each service a faerie Queen Becomes a brighter jewel than it The of your world, you may impart to be neither over-graced Nor in the art Of living, where their lips were to taste A sort of feline stealth they wear about And while a flame of innocence hold In forests dark you fear to be them For of maler kinds are ne'er so bold Yes, in thy orb a may be a knight (Thou knew'st a friend would make upon news) Without a whisper loud or slight For lords are not afeared stock to lose Where no stock may be taken or be No be granted, nor no bride No maiden may be while she slept Nor robbed of her freedom to What suits her best. No law is needed To cut the of violence from the stem No danger for the law to go For acts as these do not occur to The gentlemen you raise are still For in their eyes, as in the depths of Such soft and mysteries fulfill The darkest corners of heart's design Their arrows, like those I gave to thee not but graze the flank of yonder cow Without him laugh. 'Tis much to see Them their prey. I know not how They ever do encapture what eat Save that perhaps bright unfettered brains Have learned that what grows underneath feet And in the trees better sustains A intent on living well tomorrow But how, I ask thee, endearing fiend Do lords and ladies where is no sorrow No strife to overcome, no soul Of crushing ardor long out its stay, Betrothal to a less divine that who stole thy blushing breath away No hot forbidden for to pine No heart to age where heart is young No ill intentioned to evade? "Still madam! Would'st thou kindly thy tongue!" Thou sayest. "Your mistake has rash made In living long in combat with your Thou see'st no other obstacle but Thy hands are that have yet to find The hands that first should hold them. Yet to The which you serve unwitting Thou dost that love in fighting grows That happiness in love is not But in thy sadness thou mak'st light of For even were ne'er a cloudy day No tempest to divide love had bound The galley which the moon in her sway Could not but stir the it finally found The is deeper than the sea about thee The stars upon my doublet you have May my homeward path, but how, without me Wilt thou escape the thou tremblest on?" And in this way and more my spoke O, fierce, savage, gentle bright Thou who I've breath my soul has broke You had but not the right Could I but see the lips that not breathe They are so and pressing sweet I but touch the wings that underneath Are made so soft thy forgets to beat Perhaps I should have for which to strive You to my domain and brought despair For though I be the chastest heart The realm you of will not take me there Have you no pity? thou not perceive That I, a beast, had but the eyes To see where I would love? Dost thou That ere you I was but vain disguise? I know the of music reveals The things no heart could comprehend I thou for all that torment feels And longed to be thy faithful friend Yea, quiet as a mushroom did I I willed to thee my to overtake I at each passing horse's gait And so I to suddenly awake Alas, my love, thou kiss me goodbye? The lingering night aid thee on thy travels I'll craft but one thing more, a to fly Before to me how thy tale unravels I say, thou art complete and to go What holds thee here save one who lives no For I have thee the life you know The I become, thou art the stronger And in your antique words clear intent Was that once art gone I should dismay Quothe thee, "Your mistook me, for I meant To leave not but offerest to stay. For true, I did in my own realm Partake of that pure love of which I thee But be my guide and with me at the And I shall, in the cloak you wrought, enfold And journey to the ends of all the For thou proved more generous and wise Than all we faeries, moons and are worth For live we not but in your eyes." Dear nameless knight, if thou be mine own And leave thy dragons for a while thou in these arms within which thou hast grown A better reason than the which thou But with your hand you swear I so And 'tis not plain to me, though I did it way thou dost intend for us to go Sure in the it is of she who saw it Yet still perhaps I made thee to What one would do if one were asked to 'Tween back and forwards. Be thee or lover Perhaps you to be my favorite muse Thou feel'st thy armor; fight but you must Thou see'st the blade of truth thy knee Use against all whom you mistrust But thou ride'st my way, aim one at me world is yours as ere it was before Your time beneath my busy hand well I've a thing I love; I ask no more And shall redeem the heart I lent Me in my world and in thine Two petals on the and silent flower And evermore I'll welcome in mine Your dear was my finest hour