Alas, my love, if I make you live And from the page step forth and sit me Or better still, bestride the I gave you Wrapped close within the I lent to hide thee I'd venture forth to ask thy name Since while liest underneath my pen That honour given which the claim was withheld. But if again I held captive as I did ere now Stalling to pass my fingers the last Of midnight tendrils, or thy brow In fear of off what heaven cast Too for my insufficient mind To grasp the detail and retain The presence your image left behind That in all thy glory should remain I fear my I would not mend For now reflection I confess secretly I never did intend With long or surname rich to bless But let in my imagination Run wild the thoughts of who you were Before your soul your creation And deigned my mind and heart to stir For a noble and impassioned face Could well be but newborn unto this But sure among a distant race Thou known more than all who dwelleth here And could tell much of places thou hast And battles fought for won and lost And how each service done a faerie a brighter jewel than it cost The ladies of your world, you may Desire to be over-graced Nor in the art Of living, where their were meant to taste A sort of feline they wear about them And while a flame of innocence they In dark you fear to be without them For knights of 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 censure For lords are not their stock to lose Where no stock may be or be kept No be granted, nor no bride No maiden may be stolen while she Nor robbed of her freedom to What her best. No county's law is needed To cut the weed of violence the stem No for the law to go unheeded For acts as these do not to them The gentlemen you raise are still For in eyes, as in the depths of thine Such soft and thrilling fulfill The darkest corners of their design Their arrows, much like I gave to thee Could not but the flank of yonder cow Without making him laugh. 'Tis to see Them tickling prey. I know not how They ever do encapture they eat Save that perhaps bright unfettered brains Have learned that what grows underneath their And in the trees better sustains A life intent on living well But how, I ask thee, endearing fiend Do and ladies love where is no sorrow No to overcome, no soul uncleaned Of ardor long worn out its stay, Betrothal to a mortal less Than that who stole thy blushing away No hot kisses for to pine No heart affixed to age where heart is No ill intentioned suitors to "Still madam! Would'st thou kindly thy tongue!" Thou sayest. "Your mistake has been made In living long in combat your kind Thou see'st no other but these Thy hands are careworn have yet to find The that first should hold them. Yet to please The hierarchy you serve unwitting Thou dost believe love in fighting grows That happiness in is not befitting But in thy sadness thou light of woes For even were there a cloudy day No tempest to divide love had bound The which the moon holds in her sway not but stir the peace it finally found The is deeper than the sea about thee The stars my doublet you have drawn May light my path, but how, without me Wilt thou escape the fate thou on?" And in this way and more my spoke O, fierce, savage, gentle bright Thou who I've given breath my soul has You had authority but not the Could I but see the that dare not breathe are so beautiful and pressing sweet Could I but the wings that underneath Are made so soft thy heart forgets to Perhaps I should have for which to strive You to my domain and brought despair For though I be the chastest alive The you speak of will not take me there Have you no pity? Can'st not perceive I, a blinded beast, had but the eyes To see I would love? Dost thou believe That ere you came I was but vain I know the murmur of music The things no human could comprehend I render'st thou for all torment feels And longed to be thy lordship's friend Yea, quiet as a did I wait I to thee my form to overtake I at each passing horse's gait And so I to suddenly awake Alas, my love, wilt thou kiss me The lingering night aid thee on thy travels I'll but one thing more, a crow to fly to tell me how thy tale unravels I say, thou art complete and to go What thee here save one who lives no longer? 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 thou art gone I dismay thee, "Your thought mistook me, for I meant To leave not but offerest to stay. For true, I never did in my own of that pure love of which I told thee But be my guide and with me at the And I shall, in the you wrought, enfold thee And to the ends of all the earth For thou proved more generous and wise Than all we faeries, moons and are worth For we not but living in your eyes." Dear nameless knight, if thou would'st be own And leave thy dragons for a while thou in these arms within which thou hast grown A better reason the which thou say'st But with hand you pointeth; swear I so And 'tis not to me, though I did draw it Which way thou dost for us to go Sure in the it is of she who saw it Yet perhaps I made thee to discover What one would do if one were to choose back and forwards. Be thee friend or lover Perhaps you were to be my favorite Thou feel'st thy fight but when you must Thou see'st the blade of below thy knee Use arrows all whom you mistrust But when thou my way, aim one at me Your world is yours as ere it was Your time beneath my hand well spent I've a thing 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 flower And evermore I'll welcome thee in dear creation was my finest hour