If the stars fell; night's nameless dreams
Of bliss and blasphemy came true,
If skies were green and snow were gold,
And you loved me as I love you;
O long light hands and curled brown hair,
And eyes where sits a naked soul;
Dare I even then draw near and burn
My fingers in the aureole?
Yes, in the one wise foolish hour
God gives this strange strength to a man.
He can demand, though not deserve,
Where ask he cannot, seize he can.
But once the blood's wild wedding o'er,
Were not dread his, half dark desire,
To see the Christ-child in the cot,
The Virgin Mary by the fire?
Joseph
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Poem topics: I love you, child, dark, fire, god, green, hair, light, night, snow, strength, wedding, desire, soul, wild, wise, long, brown, foolish, deserve, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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