The Secret Rose
FAR-OFF, most secret, and inviolate Rose,
Enfold me in my hose
the holy Sepulchre,
Or in t, dir
And tumult of defeated dreams; and deep
Among pale eyelids, he sleep
Men y. t leaves enfold
t beards, the helms of ruby and gold
Of the king whose eyes
Sahe pierced hands and Rood of elder rise
In Druid vapour and make torches dim;
till vain frenzy awoke and he died; and him
Fand walking among flaming dew
By a grey she wind never blew,
And lost the world and Emer for a kiss;
And of their liss,
And till a hundred moms had flowered red
Feasted, and the barrows of his dead;
And the crown
And sorrow away, and calling bard and clown
D among ained wanderers in deep woods:
And illage, and house, and goods,
And soughrough lands and islands numberless years,
Until er and ears,
A woman of so shining loveliness
t men t midnigress,
A little stolen tress. I, too, a
t wind of love and e.
ars be blo the sky,
Like t of a smithy, and die?
Surely t wind blows,
Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose?