To a Poet
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
And have you passed the druid gates
Where armed Angels stand
And found the house where Kathleen waits
To heal the thorn-pricked hand,
And wreath with ivy leaves the head
Long bared to wind and rain,
Ere hand and head to the Rose that's red
Be vowed, and hers remain?
And have you breathed the very air
Full of the Rose's breath?
Have you beheld her strange and fair
Yourself untouched of death?
How comes it, then, so bold you are
That you can bide the pain
Of seeing her grow faint and far,
And earth your own again?
Yet lack of yours is gain of ours
And we are very fain
To see you here 'mid earthly flowers,
Tended by mortal men.
Stay here awhile for kindness' sake,
And sing the Rose a space
Until, like you, our bonds we break,
And see her very face.
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