Another For The Briar-Rose

O treacherous scent, O thorny sight, O tangle of world’s wrong and right, What art thou ’gainst my armour’s gleam But dusky cobwebs of a dream? Beat down, deep sunk from every gleam Of hope, they lie and dully dream; Men once, but men no more, that Love Their waste defeated hearts should move. Here sleeps the world that would not love! Let it sleep on, but if He move Their hearts in humble wise to wait On his new-wakened fair estate. O won at last is never late! Thy silence was the voice of fate; Thy still hands conquered in the strife; Thine eyes were light; thy lips were life.