VI

When from the rose-mist of creation grew

God's patient waiting in your wide-set eyes,

The morning stars, and all the host that flies

On wings of love, paused at the wondrous blue

With which the Master, mindful of the hue,

Stained first the crystal dome of summer skies;

And afterward the violet that vies

With amethyst, before He fashioned you.

And I have trembled with those ancient stars;

My heart has known the flame-winged seraphs’ song;

For no indifferent, dreamy eyelid bars

Me from the blue, nor veils with lashes long

Your love, that to my tender gazing grows

Bold to confess it: I am glad he knows!