October O love, turn from the changing sea and gaze, Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old, A-dying mid the autumn-scented haze That hangeth oer the hollow in the wold, Where the wind-bitten ancient elms infold Grey church, long barn, orchard, and red-roofed stead, Wrought in dead days for men a long while dead. Come down, O love; may not our hands still meet, Since still we live today, forgetting June, Forgetting May, deeming October sweet? - - Oh, hearken! hearken! through the afternoon The grey tower sings a strange old tinkling tune! Sweet, sweet, and sad, the toiling years last breath, To satiate of life, to strive with death. And we too -will it not be soft and kind, That rest from life, from patience, and from pain, That rest from bliss we know not when we find, That rest from love which neer the end can gain? - Hark! how the tune swells, that erewhile did wane! Look up, love! -Ah! cling close, and never move! How can I have enough of life and love? - William Morris Sade - By Your Side: youtu.be/C8QJmI_V3j4
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 07:36:18 +0000
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