A Seal Upon Your Arm

I put my love a seal upon your arm, 
I put my love for sandals on your feet. 
That they may never weary, when for heat 
The noonday ways of life are dry and sore. 
I put my love about your neck, my own: 
I put my love your maiden bosom o'er. 
Your bosom that is beating with my thought — 
The sweetest pillow that love ever wrought 
For lover's tired head to rest upon. 
For life and death and all between, a charm, 
I set my love a seal upon your arm. 

I set my love a seal upon your arm, 
I set my love a seal upon your mouth, 
I set my love east, west, and north, and south. 
That you may see it shining everywhere. 
When you are glad of heart, or ill at ease, 
Clear shining after rain my love shall be, 
A sky that broods above you, shedding peace. 
If I must first into the silence fare 
You shall lift up your weeping eyes, and see 
My love; upon her dying bed my sweet 
Shall feel my love a warmth upon her feet. 
Shall feel my love a seal upon her arm.