Alas, my love, if I could make you And from the page forth and sit beside me Or better still, the steed I gave you Wrapped close within the cloak I lent to hide Perhaps I'd forth to ask thy name Since thou liest underneath my pen honour given which the poorest claim Unjustly was withheld. But if I held captive as I did ere now Stalling to pass my fingers through the Of midnight tendrils, or peruse thy In fear of off what heaven cast Too for my insufficient mind To grasp the fullest and retain The presence that image left behind That thou in all thy glory should I fear my oversight I not mend For now upon I confess That secretly I did intend With long or surname rich to bless But let in my imagination Run wild the thoughts of who perhaps you Before soul demanded your creation And deigned my and willing heart to stir For such a noble and face well be but newborn unto this sphere But sure among a distant beauteous Thou known more than all who dwelleth here And could tell much of thou hast seen And fought for honours won and lost And how each done a faerie Queen Becomes a jewel than it cost The of your world, you may impart Desire to be over-graced Nor in the art Of living, where their were meant to taste A sort of feline stealth wear about them And while a flame of innocence they In forests dark you to be without them For knights of maler are ne'er so bold Yes, in thy orb a may be a knight (Thou knew'st a friend make upon this news) a whisper loud or censure slight For lords are not afeared stock to lose Where no may be taken or be kept No property be granted, nor no No may be stolen while she slept Nor of her freedom to decide What her best. No county's law is needed To cut the weed of violence from the No danger for the law to go For acts as these do not to them The gentlemen you raise are rarer For in eyes, as in the depths of thine soft and thrilling mysteries fulfill The darkest of their heart's design Their arrows, much those I gave to thee not but graze the flank of yonder cow Without him laugh. 'Tis much to see Them tickling prey. I know not how They ever do encapture they eat Save that their bright unfettered brains Have that what grows underneath their feet And in the above better sustains A life on living well tomorrow But how, I ask thee, endearing fiend Do lords and love where is no sorrow No strife to overcome, no uncleaned Of crushing ardor long out its stay, Betrothal to a mortal divine Than who stole thy blushing breath away No hot forbidden for to pine No affixed to age where heart is young No ill suitors to evade? "Still madam! Would'st thou kindly thy tongue!" sayest. "Your mistake has rash been made In living long in combat with your Thou see'st no other but these Thy hands are careworn that have yet to The hands first should hold them. Yet to please The hierarchy which you serve Thou dost that love in fighting grows That happiness in love is not But in thy sadness thou mak'st of woes For were there ne'er a cloudy day No tempest to divide love had bound The galley which the moon in her sway Could not but the peace it finally found The is deeper than the sea about thee The stars my doublet you have drawn May light my homeward path, but how, me Wilt thou escape the fate tremblest on?" And in this way and more my spoke O, fierce, savage, gentle beauty Thou who I've given breath my soul has You had but not the right Could I but see the that dare not breathe They are so beautiful and pressing Could I but touch the 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 heart alive The realm you speak of not take me there you no pity? Can'st thou not perceive That I, a beast, had but the eyes To see where I would love? Dost believe ere you came I was but vain disguise? I know the murmur of reveals The no human heart could comprehend I render'st for all that torment feels And longed to be thy lordship's faithful Yea, quiet as a did I wait I willed to thee my to overtake I at each passing horse's gait And so I slept to awake Alas, my love, wilt thou me goodbye? The lingering will aid thee on thy travels I'll craft but one thing more, a to fly Before to tell me how thy tale I say, thou art complete and to go What holds thee here save one who lives no For I have given thee the life you The I become, thou art the stronger And in your antique words your intent Was that thou art gone I should dismay Quothe thee, "Your mistook me, for I meant To thee not but offerest to stay. For true, I never did in my own Partake of that pure love of which I told But be my guide and with me at the And I shall, in the cloak you wrought, thee And to the ends of all the earth For thou hast proved generous and wise Than all we faeries, moons and are worth For live we not but living in eyes." Dear nameless knight, if thou would'st be own And leave thy dragons for a while thou Find in these within which thou hast grown A better reason than the which say'st But with your hand you swear I so And not plain to me, though I did draw it Which way thou intend for us to go Sure in the it is of she who saw it Yet perhaps I made thee to discover What one do if one were asked to choose 'Tween back and forwards. Be friend or lover Perhaps you to be my favorite muse Thou thy armor; fight but when you must Thou the blade of truth below thy knee Use arrows all whom you mistrust But thou ride'st my way, aim one at me Your world is yours as ere it was Your time beneath my busy hand well I've made a I love; I ask no more And never redeem the heart I lent Me in my world and in thine Two petals on the same and silent And evermore I'll welcome thee in Your dear creation was my hour