The Unknown Minstrel.

I sing of love, most delicate and pure,

Surely the crown of life! How slow and sweet

Its music! Shall the ecstasy endure,

Sunshine on wheat?

Where leads this gentle love? I see you sigh!

The Scythe is laid unto the Golden Grain:

A note of utter unreality

Usurps the strain.

I sing not of that other flame of hell