17. The Golden Love-Song -

Let now my soul
Ascend with the song of glorious love to the skies of the morning,
Let now my lark-soul, sun of the darkness, dawn toward the sun of the day,
Earth is too narrow: give me a sky to sing in:
Give me a sky for a golden love-song ...

I arose from the bed of night and from the arms of my beloved in the darkness:
I arose: I tasted resurrection:
The god, struggling in my breast, became a lark ...
" This is what the Earth means," I cried,
" Why our planet goes with singing down the sky-road of the stars."

Then my young love leaped radiant to the kiss of the morning-shine,
She sparkled out of the waters of the bath; laughter of brooks was she,
Babble of pines was she ...
She came with long hair of the seaweed colour running to wild tints of the russet-and-golden rocks,
Starred with her sea-blue eyes, sunned with her wild-rose cheeks ...
My love was a young victory and our souls went singing together into the skies ...
Lark-golden, lark-singing, into the morning skies ...

You are beautiful, you are beautiful, my wild-rose love ...
O my lark-soul, you are beautiful ...
If I were a stone this morning, I should break into song,
If I were a massive mountain, I should snap my rock-foundations and dance upon the plains,
If I were a fixed star, I should leap a mad comet of music ...

You are beautiful, you are beautiful, my wild-rose love ...
Golden with the South are you,
Passionate with the South ...
You strike through my dark North soul the wine-rays of delight ...
You permeate me with a rhapsody of perfume and of bobolink-tunes and of petal-tints ...
You smite me open singing into resurrection ...
You have conquered me: I am in love ...

In love: and I am wings now:
In love: and I am a song now ...
I am a golden love-song which can never be blown into the magic of the throat's singing,
Which can only die into your heart, my beautiful,
Which can only sing into your soul, and yours alone, yours alone ...
Yours alone in all the world.
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