Of old, on her terrace at evening
– not here – in some long-gone kingdom
oh, folded close to her breast!
Our gaze dwelt wide on the blackness
(was it trees? or a shadowy passion
the pain of an old-world longing
that it sobb’d, that it swell’d, that it shrank?)
– the gloom of the forest
blurr’d soft on the skirt of the night-skies
that shut in our lonely world.
Not here – in some long-gone world…
Close-lock’d in that passionate arm-clasp
no word did we utter, we stirr’d not:
the silence of Death, or of Love.
Only, round and over us,
that tearless infinite yearning,
and the Night with her spread wings rustling,
folding us with the stars.
Not here – in some long-gone kingdom
of old, on her terrace at evening,
oh, folded close to her heart!
(Christopher Brennan)
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