AT A HOLY WELL

By James Henry Cousins

He dragged his knees from flag to flag,

And prayed for health with awe-struck brow,

Then hung his ill's discarded rag

On the o'erhanging hawthorn bough.

And in the adoring hush that fell,

I, from the form set inly free,

Knelt at my heart's most holy well

And worshipped mine own mystery.