Even So Came Love
Treading unknown ways and
lovely beyond
All lonely dreams, 'tis Love herself I see -
'Tis Love herself who pledges sanctuary
In bosom quiet as a twilight pond.
Out of the unguessed deep the
song is blown,
And all earth's voices die. What shall compare
With that by which all other things are fair.
Who shall contend with Love's unravaged throne?
As comes the moon into
surrendered skies,
Even so came Love to whom I yield me now,
Deliberate hand and heart and dreaming brow,
And song sweet lips and beauty-haunted eyes.
by J.R. Hervey
