Shall make our sea-washed village gay.

* * * * *

Because I sought it far from men,
In deserts and alone,
I found it burning overhead,
The jewel of a Throne.

Because I sought--I sought it so
And spent my days to find--
It blazed one moment ere it left
The blacker night behind.

* * * * *

When a lover hies abroad.
Looking for his love,
Azrael smiling sheathes his sword,
Heaven smiles above.
Earth and sea
His servants be,
And to lesser compass round,
That his love be sooner found.

* * * * *

There was a strife 'twixt man and maid--
Oh that was at the birth of time!
But what befell 'twixt man and maid,