George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903. | | Love against Love | By David Atwood Wasson (18231887) |
| AS unto blowing roses summer dews, | |
Or mornings amber to the tree-top choirs, | |
So to my bosom are the beams that use | |
To rain on me from eyes that love inspires. | |
Your love,vouchsafe it, royal-hearted few, | 5 |
And I will set no common price thereon, | |
O, I will keep, as heaven his holy blue, | |
Or night her diamonds, that dear treasure won. | |
But aught of inward faith must I forego, | |
Or miss one drop from truths baptismal hand, | 10 |
Think poorer thoughts, pray cheaper prayers, and grow | |
Less worthy trust, to meet your hearts demand, | |
Farewell! Your wish I for your sake deny: | |
Rebel to love, in truth to love, am I. | | | |
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