THE LITTLE ROOM
How far away the world seems now While we two watch alono Our fiery-calyxed blossom grow , Visible, erst to sight unknown! Deserted miles of mazy streets - Compass the house around. Here at Love's labyrinth-heart each greets Holiness,, uttering no sound. ■•-.'■■■ Slowly our thoughts, through eyes resolve Each other's rounded good, . . . ':■ ' Long love-glances mingle and dissolve , . Silent as mood ebbs into mood. Sometimes twin hands enfold a face Touching with scarce a touch, And the eyes' currents, deepened, race Exchanging what no hand can clutch. . -< Sometimes the hands, all quiet, slip Behind the leaning head, And silent lip meets silent lip When speak we though no word is said. O holiness! O quiet ! Belov'd, Time was when we' did lack, Unrecognised of each we moved, Have we not set blind Fortune back We thank thee, spirit of love, who are * Foreign to Time and Doom, Freed by thee of this doomed star Here in this love-filled little room ! ' —Robert Nichols, in the : New Witness.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZT19191113.2.78
Bibliographic details
New Zealand Tablet, 13 November 1919, Page 37
Word Count
166THE LITTLE ROOM New Zealand Tablet, 13 November 1919, Page 37
Using This Item
See our copyright guide for information on how you may use this title.