The age-long promise reappears,

And life is Beauty, fringed with tears.

DIEU D’AMOUR
[A CASTLE IN CYPRUS]

Beauty hath two great wings

That lift me to her height,

Though steep her secret dwelling clings

’Twixt earth and light.

Thither my startled soul she brings

In a murmur and stir of plumes,

And blue air cloven,