New Zealand Verse/Prometheus and Asia
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Prometheus and Asia.
When a rose in beauty blows,
When a bud from earth outpeeps,
When a soul another knows
In love’s glassy, dreamy deeps,
Is not then Prometheus wed?
Is not then sweet Asia led
To the spotless bowers of love?
And love is Lord all things above.
When a bud from earth outpeeps,
When a soul another knows
In love’s glassy, dreamy deeps,
Is not then Prometheus wed?
Is not then sweet Asia led
To the spotless bowers of love?
And love is Lord all things above.
When a toiler finds some law,
Thro’ all change unchangeable,
And in joy and loving awe
Sees less dim the Eternal Will,
Is not then Prometheus led
Joyous to the nuptial bed?
Is not then his Asia’s rule
Gracious, loving, beautiful?
Thro’ all change unchangeable,
And in joy and loving awe
Sees less dim the Eternal Will,
Is not then Prometheus led
Joyous to the nuptial bed?
Is not then his Asia’s rule
Gracious, loving, beautiful?
When a poet’s frenzied brain
Catches at some hidden truth,
When is wash’d a crimson stain
With forgiving tears of ruth,
Is not then Prometheus’ bride
Standing glowing by his side?
Is not then more sweet to him
Than the song of Seraphim
Her sweet breath and placid eyes?
For Earth is one with Paradise.
Catches at some hidden truth,
When is wash’d a crimson stain
With forgiving tears of ruth,
Is not then Prometheus’ bride
Standing glowing by his side?
Is not then more sweet to him
Than the song of Seraphim
Her sweet breath and placid eyes?
For Earth is one with Paradise.
Ebenezer Storry Hay.