Love Achieves

“Love Achieves” Ife my love a sea can touch Where words and love cannot confess The very shadows of the soul Or find the rose of all desire No flaw or flame thus to know That time concedes upon the heart The chain of sorrow’s crimson kiss That makes each moment paradise And leads us to eternal bliss Ife one vivid line of love Which shares with nature autumn’s last Stolid lancing redolent glance Cast at length upon the place Where hearts and stars cannot so die Like a vampire serene within a tomb Long bereft of sunlight’s smile But death has waited every mile And every mile I have dreamed Dreamed as much as lovers when Walking on some golden shore Kiss and find that love is more Than all that man has yet aspired In science or technology For there my love I find the blush The rose that’s cast upon the sea And sails across to be with thee But in pursuit of loving best I die within my soul For what pen or poet cannot know That love achieves All forgiveness