YOU MUST MEAN MORE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 13, 23 December 1911, Page 13

YOU MUST MEAN MORE.

(By Richard Le Gallienne.) 1 You must mean morn than just this hour, ! You perfcct thing so subtly fair, ■ Simple and complex as a flower, Wrought with such planetary care; ; How patient the eternal power That wove the marvel of your hair. How long the sunlight and the sea Wovo and rewove (his rippling gold To rhythms of eternity; And many a flashing thing grew old , Waiting this miracle to bo; And painted marvels manifold. Still with his work unsatisfied, 1 Eager each new effect to try, The solemn artist cast aside Eainbow and shell and butterfly— As some stern blacksmith scatters wide | Tho sparks that from his anvil fly. How many shells, whorl within whorl, • Litter' (lie marges of tho sphero , With wrack of unregarded pearl, | To shape that little thing your ear: Creation, just to make one girl, i Hath travailed with exceeding fear. Tho moonlight of forgotten 6oas Dwells in your eyes. and on your tonguo T'lio honey of a million bees, And all'tho sorrow of all song; Y'ou arc the ending of all these, The world grew old to mako you young. All Time hath travelled to this roseTo the strange .making of this face Camo agonies of fires and snows; And Death and April, nights and days Unnumbered, unimugjned throes, I'ind in this flower their meeting-place. Strange Artist, to my aching thought Give answer:" all the patient power That to this perfect ending wrought— .Shall it moan nothing but this hour? Say not that it is all for nought time brings lHernity a flower. J. —"Harprr's ■ Weekly,",