158. Wherein Merely to Look on Laura Sustains Him -
WHEREIN MERELY TO LOOK ON LAURA SUSTAINS HIM
As God is life forever and forever,
The perfect Fullness, every gift expressing,
So, dear my Lady, in you is all blessing,
My few years flow to you as to a river.
Never have eyes so richly gazed — Ah never —
If that eyes to the heart make true confessing —
O pure and lovely Spirit past possessing,
O leveller of hope and high endeavour!
Nor would I more entreat if less of haste
To leave impelled thee: if, as legends tell,
And in good faith, are some that live by smell,
By water some, by fire that touch and taste —
Things that no hint of strength or sweetness give —
Why not with gazing deep upon you live?
As God is life forever and forever,
The perfect Fullness, every gift expressing,
So, dear my Lady, in you is all blessing,
My few years flow to you as to a river.
Never have eyes so richly gazed — Ah never —
If that eyes to the heart make true confessing —
O pure and lovely Spirit past possessing,
O leveller of hope and high endeavour!
Nor would I more entreat if less of haste
To leave impelled thee: if, as legends tell,
And in good faith, are some that live by smell,
By water some, by fire that touch and taste —
Things that no hint of strength or sweetness give —
Why not with gazing deep upon you live?
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