LOVE'S LORD

by: Edward Dowden (1843-1913)

      HEN weight of all the garner’d years
      Bows me, and praise must find relief
      In harvest-song, and smiles and tears
      Twist in the band that binds my sheaf;
       
      Thou known Unknown, dark, radiant sea
      In whom we live, in whom we move,
      My spirit must lose itself in Thee,
      Crying a name--Life, Light, or Love.

"Love's Lord" is reprinted from The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. Ed. Nicholson & Lee. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1917.

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