Love Letters of a Violinist, and Other Poems

by Eric Mackay

I.

Teach me to love thee as a man, in prayer,

May love the picture of a sainted nun,

And I will woo thee, when the day is done,

With tears and vows, and fealty past compare,

And seek the sunlight in thy golden hair,

And kiss thy hand to claim thy benison.

II.

I shall not need to gaze upon the skies,

Or mark the message of the morning breeze,