xxiii - Popular Poems and stories from category

Then a priestess said, "Speak to us of Prayer
" And he answered, saying:
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance
For what is pray...

Time, cruel Time, come and subdue that brow Which conquers all but thee, and thee, too, stays As if she were exempt from scythe or bow,
From love or years unsubject to decays
Or art thou grown in league with those fair eyes That they may...