'Twixt Earth and Stars: Poems

by Radclyffe Hall

III

I pledged you in a cup of wine,

And every passion that was mine

I melted in that nectar rare,

To drink to you, I swear—I swear!

I pledged you in the cup of life,

Its inmost essence, hot and rife,

I caught from drops my heart bled there,

To drink to you, I swear—I swear!