If I Had Known You

If I had known you--oh, if I had known you! In other days when youth and love were strong, I would have raised a temple to enthrone you On some fair pinnacle of cloudless song. If you had touched me then with your dear laughter, As now its echo smites me in my grief, I would have given my soul to you, and after Lived in my love, grown old in my belief. If you had loved me,--oh, you would have loved me! Earth would have worshipped us, its seers sublime, My song had been a psalm, and Saints had proved me Prophet and priest, your poet for all time.