Afternoon

<SPAN name="XVII"></SPAN>XVII<br/> <br/> <br/> With all my heart and brain, my feeling and my seeing,<br/> And with the flaming torch of all my being<br/> That reaches toward your goodness and your love,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 5em;">Forever unassuaged,</span><br/> I love and bring you thanks and endless praise<br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">For having come in all simplicity</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 5em;">Along devoted ways,</span><br/> To take, with gracious hands, my destiny.<br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">And since you leaned above,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">I know&mdash;oh what a love!</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Candid and clear as is the dew</span><br/> Fallen upon my tranquil soul from you.<br/> <br/> I am yours as by their nerves of flame<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Fire and fuel merge;.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">All my flesh and all my soul</span><br/> Strive to you with undesisting urge;<br/> Nor do I cease from long remembering<br/> The fervency and beauty of our years,<br/> Till suddenly I feel my eyes are filled<br/> Deliciously, with unoblivious tears.<br/> <br/> I come to you happy and resolved<br/> With proud desire to be unto your soul<br/> He who shall be the surest of its joys.<br/> Tenderness folds us in an aureole;<br/> Echoes, within me, at your call assemble;<br/> The hour is holy and with rapture fraught,<br/> And just to touch your brow my fingers tremble,<br/> As though they brushed the pinions of your thought.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />