For Eager Lovers (Taggard collection)/The Long Magic

by Genevieve Taggard

THE LONG MAGIC

Swing, swing, and swoon,
Morning, evening, noon,

And with night, sleep.

If you must, weep—
But here, here with me.

Swing like the sea
Where waves are tall;
Torrents and the three
Tides fall. . . .

Let the end be
With the last sweep:
Swoon, swoon with me—
Then sleep.