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SONGS OF THE SOUL
Then would I flash forth varied smiles,
Or languorous walk in sorrow robed,
Or charm with sparkling wiles
And time beguile;
Or languorous walk in sorrow robed,
Or charm with sparkling wiles
And time beguile;
Or march with martial songs,
To right all wordly wrongs;
Or wear a powerful prophet mind
And into dust earth’s sorrows grind;
To right all wordly wrongs;
Or wear a powerful prophet mind
And into dust earth’s sorrows grind;
Or wear the youthful hermit’s heart,
To scatter love and strength impart.
To scatter love and strength impart.
I’d wear each heart
And don each will and smiles and spend my pelf
To try all noble minds and thoughts
And take what suits myself.
And don each will and smiles and spend my pelf
To try all noble minds and thoughts
And take what suits myself.
With brain-born nixes,
With marsh-marauding hopes and pixies,
With every elfin thought that timid trod on mind
I’d friendship find.
With marsh-marauding hopes and pixies,
With every elfin thought that timid trod on mind
I’d friendship find.
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