Impressions: A Book of Verse/Love's Gift

by Lilla Cabot Perry

 

LOVE'S GIFT

"AH Love, true Love! I pray thee to me give
That gift thou grant'st those eager hearts alone
Who serve thee best, nor other master own,
Since thus in thy sweet bondage do I live!"—
Comes sadly to my heart Love's low replying:
"Pain is that gift vouchsafed to Love undying!"