I read the marvel-lines made wax my love ✿ And wore my body out till slightest slight.[[386]]
Would Heaven ye wot the whole I bear for love ✿ Of you, with vitals clean for you undight!
And all I do t’ outdrive you from my thought ✿ ’Vails naught and ’gainst th’ obsession loses might:
Couldst for thy lover feel ’twould ease his soul; ✿ E’en thy dear Phantom would his sprite delight!
Then on my weakness lay not coyness-load ✿ Nor in such breach of troth be traitor-wight:
And, weet ye well, for this your land I fared ✿ Hoping to ’joy the union-boon forthright:
How many a stony wold for this I spanned; ✿ How oft I waked when men kept watch o’ night!
To fare fro’ another land for sight of you ✿ Love bade, while length of way forbade my sprite:
So by His name[[387]] who molt my frame, have ruth, ✿ And quench the flames thy love in me did light:
Thou fillest, arrayed with glory’s robes and rays, ✿ Heaven’s stars with joy and Luna with despight.