Thus love shall hold us (as Love said),
And holy be the forest bed,
The fresh, wild odours everywhere
Rise on the censers of the air,
And in the soft dark Love shall find
New vows, our lips and souls to bind.
And holy be the forest bed,
The fresh, wild odours everywhere
Rise on the censers of the air,
And in the soft dark Love shall find
New vows, our lips and souls to bind.
When the white-vestured dawn shall move,
We'll wake, as we have slept—with love,
And sinless as the forest-born
Arise with them to greet the morn.
We'll wake, as we have slept—with love,
And sinless as the forest-born
Arise with them to greet the morn.
From every mist-grey tree-top tall
The singing, singing dews that fall
Shall mingle thro' veiled vistas dim
With whisper of our marriage hymn.
The singing, singing dews that fall
Shall mingle thro' veiled vistas dim
With whisper of our marriage hymn.
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