<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Wedding Ode</h1><h1 align="" class="head">To A Poetess<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> i</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">LIKE swans on an enchanted lake</p><p class="line">Your dreamy days have drifted by;</p><p class="line">Now, lovely, dreamy Lady wake,</p><p class="line">A Glory lightens in the sky!</p><p class="line">The empyrean dome above</p><p class="line">Is burning, blinding sapphire blue;</p><p class="line">Your misty morning dream of love</p><p class="line">Is now a dream come true.</p></div><h1 align="" class="head">ii</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">We two have wandered hand in hand</p><p class="line">In merry moonlit fairyland;</p><p class="line">We two have culled Parnassus thyme</p><p class="line">Above the clouds on peaks sublime;</p><p class="line">But far more bright</p><p class="line">Than fairy-light</p><p class="line">This love that dawns upon your eyes,</p><p class="line">And higher than Parnassus height</p><p class="line">The summit of your Paradise.</p><p class="line">No dream is this--this orb of fire,</p><p class="line">This splendid peak of white Desire.</p></div><h1 align="" class="head">iii</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Your dream of Love takes human form,</p><p class="line">And human heart, and human speech,</p><p class="line">And runs to you, alive and warm,</p><p class="line">With hands your living hands can reach;</p><p class="line">And every other dream grows dim,</p><p class="line">He hath such light and life in him.</p></div><h1 align="" class="head">iv</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Yet mid the glory flicker gleams</p><p class="line">Of other dreams</p><p class="line">Of olden days;</p><p class="line">And misty things</p><p class="line">With rainbow wings</p><p class="line">Still dance adown your sunlit ways;</p><p class="line">Love's living heart, so warm and deep,</p><p class="line">A million million dreams can keep,</p><p class="line">And all fair dreams you ever knew</p><p class="line">Still from Love's eyes may smile to you.</p></div><h1 align="" class="head">v</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O be a poet-dreamer still,</p><p class="line">With heart and will</p><p class="line">Athrob, athrill,</p><p class="line">Æolian harps in Beauty's breath,</p><p class="line">Until at last God's Love fulfil</p><p class="line">All dreams of Life in the dream of Death,</p><p class="line">Still dream; still let thy spirit change,</p><p class="line">Like light and shadow on the sea!</p><p class="line">Still keep existence fresh and strange</p><p class="line">With Wonder and with Mystery.</p></div></body></html> · Great War