Page:Poems and lyrics of the joy of earth.djvu/23

Rh Loving did interpret her; And the sterner worship bars None whom Song has made her stars. You have seen the huntress moon Radiantly facing dawn, Dusky meads between them strewn Glimmering like downy awn: Argent Westward glows the hunt, East the blush about to climb; One another fair they front, Transient, yet outshine the time; Even as dewlight off the rose In the mind a jewel sows. Thus opposing grandeurs live Here if Beauty be their dower; Doth she of her spirit give, Fleetingness will spare her flower. This is in the tune we play, Which no spring of strength would quell;