Urlyn the Harper Author:Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Song As one who plucks a blossom in the dark, And knowing not the wonder of its hue, Drinks in the ecstacy of scent and dew; So I, in ancient dreams, was glad... more » of you. But now the rising sun has lit the flame, The blue and gold and scarlet of your pride; While all men seek your garden, far and wide,. I, hungering, in the wilderness abide. Yet, when the colour of your life shall fade, And all the petals of your splendour fall, When time has shaken down the golden wall, May I not find you lonely after all ? Vashti O Pale moon fading in the blue: O white dawn-wasted flower: Sole lingering blossom of enwreathed night Spent, spent is all thy light, And all thy power, The flowing ecstacy of light that drew The vast adoring sea In one white quivering flame of wonder unto thee. O, if swift sorrow made thee pale, When, from thy rapt embrace, The awakening waters to the young dawn turned; And all the bright waves burned For her fresh grace, Shedding light clouds about her as a veil, If this thy heart hath torn, Lean thou from thy far woe unto my grief forlorn. For I, as thou, O sister moon, Have reigned, a happy queen ; A queen through starry rapturous night have reigned : As thine my light hath waned, While yet serene I dreamed love's glittering night was at the Love, changing, fell from me, As from thy passionate flame the unremembering But one brief hour from my lord's sway My beauty was withdrawn, As them, fair moon, thy snowy light dost shroud In some wind-sailing cloud, That hour the dawn, Breaking in beauty blossomed into day; And all my splendour paled Before the glowing youth of her bright form unveiled. O Love, O Love, that couldst not hold Unfaltering, through the years Of my frail earthly life for me his heart...« less