With thought of anger, grief, suspicion, woe,

For peace must rest upon the tower Gale’d.”

Thus to us be, O Love! this crimson room

So rich with curtains of an orient bloom

Which sun-pale women wrought, dreaming of men

Who’d rush to meet them with the dusk again;

Whene’er we enter here let sad thoughts be

Deep buried in our love’s immensity.

XXXI

Faith is the soul’s pure garment, is it not,