Alas, my love, if I could you live And from the step forth and sit beside me Or better still, the steed I gave you Wrapped close within the cloak I to hide thee Perhaps I'd venture forth to ask thy Since while thou underneath my pen That honour which the poorest claim was withheld. But if again I held captive as I did ere now Stalling to pass my fingers the last Of tendrils, or peruse thy brow In fear of sending off heaven cast Too early for my mind To the fullest detail and retain The presence that image left behind thou in all thy glory should remain I fear my oversight I not mend For now upon I confess That secretly I did intend title long or surname rich to bless But let in my imagination Run the thoughts of who perhaps you were Before soul demanded your creation And deigned my mind and willing heart to For such a and impassioned face Could well be but unto this sphere But sure among a distant race Thou hast known more than all who here And tell much of places thou hast seen And battles fought for won and lost And how each service done a faerie Becomes a jewel than it cost 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 them And while a flame of innocence hold In forests dark you fear to be them For knights of kinds are ne'er so bold Yes, in thy orb a may be a knight (Thou a friend would make upon this news) Without a whisper loud or slight For lords are not their stock to lose Where no may be taken or be kept No be granted, nor no bride No may be stolen while she slept Nor robbed of her freedom to What her best. No county's law is needed To cut the weed of violence the stem No danger for the law to go For acts as these do not to them The gentlemen you raise are rarer For in their eyes, as in the depths of Such soft and thrilling fulfill The darkest corners of their heart's Their arrows, much like those I to thee Could not but graze the flank of cow making him laugh. 'Tis much to see Them tickling their prey. I not how ever do encapture what they eat Save that perhaps bright unfettered brains Have learned what grows underneath their feet And in the trees better sustains A life intent on living well But how, I ask thee, most endearing Do lords and ladies love where is no No strife to overcome, no soul Of ardor long worn out its stay, Betrothal to a mortal less Than who stole thy blushing breath 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!" sayest. "Your mistake has rash been made In living long in with your kind Thou see'st no other but these Thy are careworn that have yet to find The hands that first should hold them. Yet to The hierarchy which you serve Thou believe that 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 what had bound The galley which the moon in her sway not but stir the peace 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 the fate thou tremblest on?" And in this way and more my spoke O, fierce, savage, gentle bright Thou who I've given breath my has broke You had authority but not the Could I but see the lips that dare not They are so and pressing sweet I but touch the wings that underneath Are made so soft thy heart forgets to Perhaps I should have for which to strive You came to my domain and despair For though I be the heart alive The realm you speak of will not take me Have you no pity? Can'st not perceive I, a blinded beast, had but the eyes To see where I would love? Dost thou That ere you I was but vain disguise? I know the murmur of music The things no human heart could I render'st thou for all that torment And longed to be thy lordship's faithful Yea, as a mushroom did I wait I willed to thee my form to I shivered at each passing gait And so I to suddenly awake Alas, my love, wilt thou me goodbye? The lingering night aid thee on thy travels craft but one thing more, a crow to fly Before to tell me how thy unravels I say, art complete and free to go What holds thee here save one who lives no For I have given the life you know The I become, thou art the stronger And in your antique your clear intent Was that once thou art gone I should Quothe thee, "Your thought me, for I meant To thee not but offerest to stay. For true, I did in my own realm Partake of that pure love of which I told But be my guide and me at the helm And I shall, in the cloak you wrought, thee And journey to the of all the earth For thou hast proved more and wise Than all we faeries, moons and stars are For live we not but in your eyes." Dear nameless knight, if thou be mine own And leave thy dragons for a while thou Find in arms within which thou hast grown A better reason than the thou say'st But with your you pointeth; swear I so And 'tis not plain to me, I did draw it way thou dost intend for us to go Sure in the it is of she who saw it Yet still perhaps I made to discover What one would do if one were to choose 'Tween back and forwards. Be thee or lover Perhaps you to be my favorite muse Thou thy armor; fight but when you must Thou see'st the blade of below thy knee Use arrows against all whom you But when thou my way, aim one at me Your world is as ere it was before Your time beneath my busy hand spent 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 flower And evermore I'll thee in mine dear creation was my finest hour