Songs, Legends, and Ballads/Love, and Be Wise

by John Boyle O'Reilly

LOVE, AND BE WISE.

NOT on the word alone
Let love depend;
Neither by actions done
Choose ye the friend.

Let the slow years fly—
These are the test;
Never to peering eye
Opened the breast.

Psyche won hopeless woe,
Reaching to take;
Wait till your lilies grow
Up from the lake.
 
Gather words patiently;
Harvest the deed;
Let the winged years fly.
Sifting the seed.

Judging by harmony,
Learning by strife;
Seeking in unity
Precept and life.

Seize the supernal—
Prometheus dies;
Take the external
On trust—and be wise.