<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Eugeny</h1><p>"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect. In thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there were none of them."</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">By what unseen and subtile bands</p><p class="line">Were you two lovers bound and wed?</p><p class="line">By tiny unborn baby-hands</p><p class="line">Your spirits were together led.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Your meeting passions, seeming-blind</p><p class="line">Were in Life's prescient control;</p><p class="line">You looked--there was conceived a mind;</p><p class="line">You smiled--there was conceived a soul;</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">You kissed--and in the country dim</p><p class="line">That lies beyond the bounds of space,</p><p class="line">Foreshadowed was a baby's limb,</p><p class="line">Prefigured was a baby's face.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">This was your love's supernal source,</p><p class="line">And this its mystic mundane goal,--</p><p class="line">The grip of the creative Force</p><p class="line">That needs a body for a soul.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O wondrous is the eugeny,</p><p class="line">That finds a soul its avatar;</p><p class="line">God's baby-dream you could not see</p><p class="line">Drew you together from afar;</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And if perchance you lovers twain</p><p class="line">Had been by Fate asunder torn,</p><p class="line">Then had God's baby-dream been vain,</p><p class="line">A baby soul had died unborn.</p></div></body></html> · Great War