A rose unfold beyond the summer’s best,
The mystery of joy made manifest
In love’s self-answering and awakening smile;
Whereby the lips in wonder reconcile
Passion with peace, and show desire at rest,—
A grace of silence by the Greek unguesst,
That bloom’d to immortalize the Tuscan style:
When first the angel-song that faith had ken’d
Fancy pourtray’d, above recorded oath
Of Israel’s God, or light of poem pen’d;