GIRL TO SOLDIER ON LEAVE
I love you, Titan lover,
My own storm-days’ Titan.
Greater than the son of Zeus,
I know whom I would choose.
Titan—my splendid rebel—
The old Prometheus
Wanes like a ghost before your power:
His pangs were joys to yours.
Pallid days, arid and wan,
Tied your soul fast:
Babel-cities’ smoky tops
Pressed upon your growth
Weary gyves. What were you
But a word in the brain’s ways,
Or the sleep of Circe’s swine?
One gyve holds you yet.
It held you hiddenly on the Somme
Tied from my heart at home:
O must it loosen now? I wish
You were bound with the old, old gyves.
Love! You love me—your eyes
Have looked through death at mine.
You have tempted a grave too much.
I let you—I repine.