Stir with a hunger that is divinely just

For my allotted and inevitable decay.

My kinship with the stars is, in the play,

The tragedy of my return to dust.

For you I love, and for me whom I dream,

I rise out of the roots of my desire,

Lay a gold canopy fringed with the sun’s fire

Over our bodies whether they may seem

Clasped on a marriage-bed,

Or lying together pale in the sword’s gleam