The Flowering Orchard

The doomed ship drives on helpless through the sea, All that the mariners may do is done And death is left for men to gaze upon, While side by side two friends sit silently; Friends once, foes once, and now by death made free Of…

I OW a little Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I

For many, many days together The wind blew steady from the East; For many days hot grew the weather, About the time of our Lady's Feast.

Draw not away thy hands, my love, With wind alone the branches move, And though the leaves be scant The Autumn shall not shame us.

Love is enough: through the trouble and tangle From yesterday's dawning to yesterday's night I sought through the vales where the prisoned winds wrangle, Till, wearied and bleeding, at end of the light I met him, and we wrestled, and…

So swift the hours are Unto the time unproved: Farewell my love unloving, Farewell my love beloved!

Love is enough: cherish life that abideth, Lest ye die ere ye know him, and curse and misname him; For who knows in what ruin of all hope he hideth, On what wings of the terror of darkness he rideth?

I heard men saying, Leave hope and praying, All days shall be as all have been; To-day and to-morrow bring fear and sorrow