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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Lyrics. III. Yea, Gold Is Son of Zeus

Michael Field (Katherine Harris Bradley) (1846–1914)

(From “Long Ago,” XXXVI)

YEA, gold is son of Zeus: no rust

Its timeless light can stain;

The worm that brings man’s flesh to dust

Assaults its strength in vain:

More gold than gold the love I sing,

A hard, inviolable thing.

Men say the passions should grow old

With waning years; my heart

Is incorruptible as gold,

’Tis my immortal part:

Nor is there any god can lay

On love the finger of decay.