The Secret Rose
Or in the wine-vat, dwell beyond the stir
And sorrow away, and calling bard and clown
Men have named beauty. Thy great leaves enfold
The Secret Rose
In Druid vapour and make the torches dim;
Saw the pierced Hands and Rood
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Who sought thee in the Holy Sepulchre,
And him who sold tillage, and house, and goods,
Enfold me in my hour of hours; where those
Like the sparks blown out of a sm九*九*藏*書ithy, and die?
And sought through lands and islands numberless years,
And lost the world and Emer for a kiss;
And the proud dreaming king who flung the crown
And him who drove the gods out of their liss,
Until he found, with laughter andread.99csw.com with tears,
Surely thine hour has come, thy great wind blows,
Among pale eyelids, heavy with the sleep
The ancient beards, the helms of ruby and gold
FAR-OFF, most secret, and inviolate Rose,
Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose?
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The hour of thy great wind of love and hate.
A woman of so shining loveliness
Feasted, and wept the barrows of his dead;
And till a hundred moms had flowered red
Till vain frenzy awoke and he died; and him
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Of the crowned Magi; and the king whose eyes
Dwelt among wine-stained wanderers in deep woods:
By a grey shore where the wind never blew,
Who met Fand walking among flaming dew
That men threshed corn at midnight by a tress,