Destroyers and Other Verses/Would That You Might Bear Me Away

by Henry Head

 

She . . .

Would you might bear me away!You, my companion and friend!Into a land where the dayNo parting could end!

There with no thought but of youSoftly the white hours would pass,Fresh as the dawn with the dewOn the untrodden grass.

Never a thought would I hide,And, when night covered the land,You would draw close to my side,And perhaps touch my hand.