Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="THE_SONG_OF_THE_YOUNG_PAGE" id="THE_SONG_OF_THE_YOUNG_PAGE"></SPAN>THE SONG OF THE YOUNG PAGE</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">All that I know of love I see</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">In eyes that never look at me;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">All that I know of love I guess</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">But from another's happiness.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">A beggar at the window I,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Who, famished, looks on revelry;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">A slave who lifts his torch to guide</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The happy bridegroom to his bride.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">My granddam told me once of one</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Whom all her village spat upon,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Seeing the church from out its breast</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Had cast him cursed and unconfessed.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">An outcast he who dared not take</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The wafer that God's vicars break,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">But dull-eyed watched his neighbours pass</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">With shining faces from the Mass.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Oh thou, my brother, take my hand,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">More than one God hath blessed and banned</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">And hidden from man's anguished glance</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The glory of his countenance.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">All that I know of love I see</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">In eyes that never look at me;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">All that I know of love I guess</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">But from another's happiness.</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />