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…rit taking its pure part Of that voluptuous heart Of hidden happiness ! Arise, strong bow of the young child Eros ! (While the maddening moonlight, the memoried caress Stolen of the scented rose Stirs me and bids each racing pulse ache, ache !) Bend into an agony of art Whose cry is ever rapture, and whose tears For their own puritys undivided sake
11 Beheld in the mirror of truth, The Rose indifferent to Gods gesture, The Rose on moonlight wings That flies to the House of Fire, The Rose of Honey-in-Youth ! Ah ! No dim mystery of desire Fathoms this gulph ! No light invades The mystical musical shades Of a faith in the future, a dream of the day When athwart the dim glades Of the forest a ray Of sunlight shall flash and the dew die away ! Let there then be obscurity in this ! There is an after rapture in the kiss. The fire, flesh, perfume, music, that outpaced All time, fly off ; the…
…appiness ? That may not be. My love is like a golden grape ; the veins Peep through the ecstasy Of the essence of ivory and silk, Pearl, moonlight, mother-milk That is her skin ; Its swift caress Flits like an angels kiss in a dream ; remains The healing virtue ; from all sin, All ill, one touch sets free. My love is like a star oh fool ! oh fool ! Is not thy back yet tender from the rod ? Is there no learning in the poets school ? Wilt thou achieve what were too hard for God ? I call Him to the battle ; ask of me When the hinds calve ? Wha…