WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF LOVE?

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 426, 8 July 1913, Page 7

WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF LOVE?

Ah, sterile, silver moon on high, Bare jewel sat m velvet sky, White feathered clouds of night drift by, What know you of love's bliss? The pulse that beats to passion's pain, And throbs within the purple vein, The clinging kiss that leaves a stain — What do you know of this? Ah, golden stars ' that brilliant gleam, So cold, so distant do ye seem, Bright eyes that know not sleep or dream, Wh^t know you of love's flame? The heavy blood of red desires, That sears the soul with scorching fires, • Bums to grey ashes, then expires — What do you know of shame? Ah, winged wind, so strange and fleet, Whereon the North Sea's chill may meet, The southern perfume, -warm and sweet, What know you of lovo's joys? The gilt and glamor of first love, New summer and the bloom thereof, Tho tender leaf, the nesting dove — What know you of sxich toys? Ah, grey-green sea, by etoxm lashed whitej Or fair and calm with turquoise light, Ice-bound or phosphorescent bright, What know you of love's wane? Of Hps that cloy and satiate, The stolen sweet that m blind fate, The pangs of death, the thrust of hate — What do you know of pain? Faith Baldwin.